So I was minding my own business yesterday working away on a story about mobile gaming at the Rocky when I get an email from Vince Desi, CEO of Running With Scissors. All it says is: "What's your number?"

I shot back my work number, and within a few minutes my phone rings and Desi is on the other end. Now, if you've never read anything about the head-honcho of the company that created Postal, well, let's just say he's a passionate guy.

It seems he was a little piqued about a story running out of Russia blaming a knife attack at a Moscow synagogue on his game. "Piqued" is, in every way, putting it mildly. What really came through was the frustration he felt. Postal is, of course, an over-the-top, violent game. But it's one that is so very violent that I think it would be fair to call it satire. Yes, violent satire, but satire nonetheless.

Desi's frustration, I think, is borne out of a sense of helplessness. What can he do about the things people say about his game? He's not EA or Take-Two, he can't defend himself, really. He feels, I believe, like a very large target waiting to be bitten.

And unfortunately, there's a rabid dog in our midst looking for something around which to lock its jaws.

I'll be talking with Desi later today on another story, and will get more official reaction from him on this whole thing.

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