Developer of New Postal Game Shuts Down Studio After Game Announces, Then Is Canceled Over Gen AI Allegations – IGN

Developer of New Postal Game Shuts Down Studio After Game Announces, Then Is Canceled Over Gen AI Allegations – IGN

By Rebekah Valentine
Publication Date: 2025-12-05 16:59:00

The studio behind the Postal franchise has just announced that it will be releasing a brand new Postal game, developed by Goonswarm Games. Unfortunately, the company recently announced that it would be canceling the game amid allegations that Goonswarm had used generative AI in its development. And now Goonswarm is closing.

The game, titled Postal: Bullet Paradise, was announced earlier this week on Wednesday with a reveal trailer and press release. It’s said to be a “timeline-hopping, dystopian Bullet Heavne first-person shooter” set in the Postal universe, where players can choose from 11 unlockable Postal Dudes from different timelines and, well, shoot people.

However, not long after the trailer was released, Postal fans began pointing out that the game featured many characteristics of assets created using generative AI. When we embedded the trailer in this article for you to see, our access to the video file was blocked and the official version was removed from…