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 demo caught fire and helped pave the way to its eventual success. That ...

So, it turns out that I've been pronouncing Balatro wrong all this time, and now feel like a total spade. I really don't know how to deal with this revelation, it's left me rather flush-ed.

Last week, League of Legends shadow-dropped The Demon's Hand, an in-universe twist on poker-roguelike phenomenon Balatro. Interwoven with a few touches of narrative that build on the tentative ...

What are the best Balatro mods? The indie smash hit made by one person in his spare time topped the best games lists across the board, including our very own game of the year list. With that said ...

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 ...

various joker cards in balatro As far as developers are concerned, LocalThunk tends to be a pretty private person. Despite the game’s massive success over the last year, the developer remains ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. 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.

Poker might be a game of chance, but Balatro is all about stacking the odds in your favor. Whether you’re drowning in rerolls, hoarding cash like a dragon, or chasing that one Joker that’ll ...

UK games publisher Playstack is no stranger to supporting indie games, and its journey with LocalThunk's Balatro is no exception. The game has become a breakout success. In just its first eight hours, ...

Balatro is the surprise deck-building game taking the world by storm. Many gamers have become addicted to the deck-building roguelite, praising the simple yet deeply strategic game. Others in the ...

"I don't think he'll let us know when [Balatro 1.1] is gonna drop. He's just gonna show up one day and say, here's 100 new jokers," van Halderen said. "He plays his cards super close to his chest.