Back in August last year, we learned that Balatro would be getting its "first major gameplay update" in 2025. After seven ...

Balatro was one of the big hits of 2024, but the roguelike deckbuilder was a "pain in the ass to market" at first before a ...

Balatro. BAH-luh-tro. Ba-LAH-tro. Millions of us have said it once or twice over the last year, but we’ve also often caught each other off-guard with our own myriad pronunciations of the game ...

He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Balatro just won four Game Developers Choice Awards, including Game of the Year, but the person who made the game wasn’t on stage ...

LocalThunk’s Balatro, developed by Playstack, was deemed a royal flush as it was crowned Game of the Year at the 25th Game Developers Choice Awards. Handed out on Wednesday at the Moscone Center ...

“Balatro” won Game of the Year at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) on Wednesday, just after “Consume Me” received the top prize at the Independent Games Festival Awards (IGFA).

The folks working on Balatro have let us know how to properly pronounce the game's title, even though there's no real "wrong" way to do so. According to Game File, publisher PlayStack's head of ...

it wasn’t long after this experience that LocalThunk started having opportunities to “watch the fruits of [his] labour for once,” like watching a pre-launch Balatro tournament livestream ...