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Developer of ‘Spanking Exorcist’ game held up by Steam content moderation releases free ‘apology game’ where you spank him as punishment: ‘We would be delighted if you enjoy it’

First reported by Automaton, Spanking Exorcist developer Actor made a free “apology game” available to download after missing a planned July 24 release date due to overzealous Steam content moderation. In the simple apology game, you press a button to simulate spanking the developer as punishment. Spanking Exorcist’s trailer shows a game combining first person…

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Is today’s puzzle game scene interesting? ‘No, I don’t think it is,’ says Jonathan Blow, even though there are ‘really good games in the past’ devs could look to for inspiration

Jonathan Blow—that fellow who made Braid and The Witness—revealed his new game at last year’s Game Awards. Order of the Sinking Star, in the making for nine years, is pitched as a “game design supercollider” that mashes together four separate puzzle games into an enormous puzzle chimaera, throbbing with 500 hours of hot solving content….

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I didn’t realize how much Elden Ring Nightreign upgraded its Dark Souls skins until I saw them side-by-side with the originals

FromSoft dataminer and YouTuber BonfireVN has uploaded a new video comparing Elden Ring Nightreign’s Dark Souls throwback skins to their original models, and I was surprised at how much they’ve actually been touched up since their original appearances. I like to think I’m a tough, serious guy who’s not easily manipulated when a piece of…

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The co-founder of a major datacenter company has been charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in AI chips to China

Three Chinese businessmen have been charged by the US government for allegedly diverting “high-performance computer servers assembled in the United States and integrating sophisticated US artificial intelligence technology to China.” The three are Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, co-founder of Supermicro; Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, a Supermicro sales manager in Taiwan; and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, a contractor of…

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