“Taxpayers who do not properly report the income tax consequences of virtual currency transactions can be audited for those transactions and, when appropriate, can be liable for penalties and interest,” the IRS says. In extreme cases, failing to report virtual currencies when filing taxes could result in criminal prosecution, including tax evasion and filing a false tax return. It’s a grind, but if you’ve gone that route, the IRS wants you to report what you’ve managed to collect. “When a taxpay

Despite being a self-proclaimed work-in-progress project, the RPCS3 PS3 emulator has already brought esteemed console exclusives Demon’s Souls and Persona 5 to PC. Said to apply to “over a hundred games”, the emulator’s creators have rewritten Texture Instructions which allows texture inputs to use the srgb colorspace. This in turn fixes Bloom and Shadows in all Unreal Engine 3 games, so reads the following video’s description. Observe:Besides Red Dead Redemption, other games featured there incl

A whole bunch of PC gaming hardware is on sale today at Amazon, with discounts of up to 50 percent off select products. There is a wide variety to choose from, too—everything from monitors and mice, to routers and full blown systems, and more. If it’s a new mouse you’re after, Corsair’s M65 Pro RGB can be had for $40. There are a few gaming headsets on sale as well, including Logitech’s G633 Artemis Spectrum. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links.

Reading the reviews of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, I noticed a trend. Everything in Deus Ex must have a meaning and must feel plausible, so I couldn’t just place random objects everywhere. As well as being responsible for the grand vision of the Palisade Bank, Maurer also paid attention to the smallest details. Success storyEidos Montreal took on a considerable job when they decided to reboot Deus Ex, and they did it justice. Sadly, the Deus Ex series appears to be on hold as Eidos Montreal turns

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ latest test build introduces a new weapon skin system and new cosmetic crates. Developer PUBG Corp is also contemplating a version of region-locked servers. “We are always working towards improving the gameplay environment,” reads this Steam Community update post. Elsewhere, the Steam Community post explores the new weapons skins system which comes with a tweaked UI. The latest update is live now on test servers, while transition to live servers will follow four ho

Overkill’s The Walking Dead, the upcoming four-player co-op zombie FPS, has released a developer diary showcasing the neighborhood of Georgetown in Washington D.C.. You can watch it above, as producer Saul Gascon and a few lighting and environmental artists describe what went into designing the look and feel of the town in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Payday studio Overkill announced The Walking Dead back in 2014, with an original plan to release it in 2016, which was then pushed to 201

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire will let us become fearsome pirates when it walks the slightly delayed plank in May. In the meantime, the fantasy RPG now has a ‘features’ trailer that teases its companion and ship customisation options and—oh dear lord what is that flame-infused, skeletal dragon-bird-monster thing? You tell me:Character profiles from the first Pillars of Eternity can be transferred to Deadfire, explains Andy here , but players can craft new ones from scratch should they wish. Th

After months of teasing cults and bears and arms-fetching dogs that can be healed by rubbing their tummy, Far Cry 5 arrives tomorrow. Lots and lots of ‘splosions:In our Far Cry 5 review in progress, Chris praises the fun and chaotic open world this one promises—”if you’ve played Far Cry 3 or 4, you know what you’re in for”—however is less sold on its scripted missions and ambiguous real world-facing perspective. Spoilers afoot, obviously, but here’s Chris’ thoughts on the game’s lack of politica

), Drake made headlines recently by playing Fortnite. Teaming up with prolific Battle Royale streamer Ninja, the pair accrued upwards of 630,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch—smashing the platform’s record viewer count in the process. Last night, one Fortnite YouTube livestream hosted 1.1 million people. Organiser elrubius—whose own channel boasts 28 million subs—welcomed 1.1 million concurrent viewers, while the video itself has now been watched almost 16 million times. Here’s the event in full:

The GTA Online community reports multiple PC players received 30-day banning orders this weekend. The bans are said to be tied to the game’s Southern San Andreas Super Sports Series update—with many players suggesting they’ve done nothing wrong. Naturally, it’s not uncommon for banned players to claim innocence following bad behaviour, but the comments section below MikeRaven11’s post is full of players who claim they’ve been unfairly removed. In the meantime, GTA 5’s Steam reviews have suffered

If you feel like you’ve exhausted all that The Sims 4’s base game has to offer, then don’t worry: the fun is just beginning. While it doesn’t have as many game-changing extras as the rest of the series, there are some pieces of DLC that are well worth checking out, both among its larger expansion packs and smaller game packs. However, the best thing about Get Together is its clubs, which are a chance for your Sims to meet up with like-minded folk. The ready-made clubs include options for book-lo

The swap file and the page file perform essentially the same function. One of the swap file’s primary functions is to provide a page space for Windows Apps from the Windows Store. The swap file co-exists alongside the page file and is much smaller in size, taking up only a few hundred megabytes of space at most. If you want to check the size of your swap file, it’s listed as swafile.sys in the Windows file tree. Below are instructions for changing your page file, and how big it should be.

Electronic Arts has begun testing self-teaching bots in Battlefield 1 in an attempt to find the next big leap forward in gaming AI. The agents sometimes look like a co-ordinated unit, and have learned to restock on ammo if they’re running low. The point of the exercise is, eventually, to help developers build AI that is more satisfying to play against. This kind of thing has been tested in other games before, but EA reckons it’s the first time it’s happening in a shooter as complex as Battlefiel

EA opened up its Origin Access subscription service to other publishers earlier this month by ushering Batman through its doors, and now the next round of games has arrived. The Witness, Wasteland 2, Out of the Park Baseball 19 and Lost Castle have been added to the service, which lets you play a catalogue of games for $5/£4 a month—it’s like a Netflix for gaming, albeit with a fairly limited library. The Witness is the pick of the bunch: it’s a very clever maze puzzler, and one of the best game

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon creative director Dean Evans has left Ubisoft after 12 years at the developer. He’s worked across the Far Cry, Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed series, and was most recently working on a new game that Ubisoft has now cancelled. “I split with my wife, and then the project I was working on was cancelled. He said that he’s left Ubisoft on good terms, and that he wants to take more risks in development in the future. “We’re going to build spaces for players not just to play

A new game based on The X-Files is in the works, according to series creator Chris Carter. All we know is that it will be a “narrative” game (which could mean anything, really)—he slipped the news into an interview about the end of series 11 of the TV show, and wasn’t pressed on it further. “I made a joke the other day about The X-Files, the musical, but in reality, they’re actually making a really interesting narrative video game, different from the one that’s been launched already,” he said in

Budget Cuts is a VR stealth game about teleporting around tight environments and smacking robots over the head with office supplies. Based on a free demo and what we saw of the game back in 2016, we named it on our list of most promising VR games, and now it’s been given a full release date: May 16. The trailer below is from 2016, but should give you a good idea of what to expect. And if you haven’t been keeping up with VR titles, that list I mentioned is a good place to start. I don’t own a VR

Japanese developer Level-5 made a hell of a debut on PC this week with Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom, a sprawling fantasy JRPG built around a deep kingdom building sim. Following the game’s release the developer’s president, Akihiro Hino, gave a first hint at what the company is working on next—a game set in the modern day with a massive world to explore. By the way, the game we’re preparing won’t be fantasy but rather ‘modern day’,” he said in an interview with Bandai Namco producer Katsuhiro

Blizzard is testing a handful of hero balance changes on the latest Overwatch PTR, including nerfs for the super-popular D.Va and Zenyatta, while the underperforming Reaper and Mei get some buffs. “Currently each missile deals 3 impact damage and 6 explosive damage. We’re reducing explosive damage from 6 to 4 but leaving the impact damage the same, the net result being 22 percent damage reduction.” Mei: Her Endothermic Blaster now pierces through enemies, making it so she can freeze multiple tar

Today Blizzard unveiled an update to Overwatch’s reporting features that aims to “help players create a better and more positive gameplay experience.” “Another example is players intentionally allowing themselves to be eliminated by the enemy team. Mercer made it clear that simply having a bad match or playing a non-meta hero is not an example of Gameplay Sabotage. “For a player to be reported for Gameplay Sabotage, they must intentionally be trying to disrupt and harass their teammates or activ