W hen one first gets started in Balatro just getting that first win feels like a monumental achievement. Somehow, despite the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you spent far too much time last year in the Balatro hole, Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers is a fellow card game-based roguelike you don’t want to miss. Even though the indie deckbuilder was ...

Balatro may have started as a small hobby project, but several awards and millions of copies sold later, it’s easier to think of Balatro as the smash hit that now stars Geralt of Rivia and eats ...

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 ...

Balatro publisher Playstack is undoubtedly thrilled with the success of the poker roguelike phenomenon, which recently zipped past five million units sold, and head of discovery Patrick Johnson ...

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 ...

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.

Balatro Also Received Best Debut, Innovation Award and Best Design, with Astro Bot Also Showing a Strong Hand by Winning the Best Audio and Technology Awards SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2025 ...