New legislation was introduced earlier this week that would raise the amount slot game players must report to the IRS. Nevada Representative Dina Titus and Pennsylvania Representative Guy Reschenthaler filed the bill as a way to help casinos as well as patrons.

Increasing the Threshold

The measure would increase the current reporting amount of $1,200 to $5,000. It would also provide a way to increase the amount in the future based on inflation. The limit for reporting has not been changed since 1977, based on information from the American Gaming Association (AGA).

CEO of the AGA, Bill Miller, commented that increasing the tax threshold in regards to inflation has been a long time coming. According to Miller it will ‘alleviate unnecessary administrative burdens…

One year after the Steam Next Fest demo for Dark and Darker become one of the biggest games on Steam, another extraction-dungeon-crawler called Dungeonborne—first teased in September 2023 as Project Crawl—is replicating the feat with gameplay that looks a whole lot like its predecessor.

Dungeonborne’s premise is simple: Pick a fantasy character class, team up with a couple other aspiring heroes, and head into the neighborhood dungeon to battle monsters, pilfer treasure, and get out in one piece. A ring surrounding the labyrinth slowly closes in, corralling teams of players ever-closer together, and eventually forcing them to deal with each other along with the dungeon’s native fauna—ie., kill them all. Survive, and you’ll have money to spend on better equipment f…

Bad news, Steam Deck shooters: Electronic Arts has determined that Linux is “a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats” in Apex Legends, and it has thus decided to block anyone using the OS from accessing the game.

“The openness of the Linux operating systems makes it an attractive one for cheaters and cheat developers,” the Apex anticheat team wrote in an update explaining its decision.

“Linux cheats are indeed harder to detect and the data shows that they are growing at a rate that requires an outsized level of focus and attention from the team for a relatively small platform. There are also cases in which cheats for the Windows OS get emulated as if it’s on Linux in order to increase the difficulty of detection and prevention.”

Cutting off an en…