Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Balatro

Balatro's publisher beat gold stakes and the Jokerless challenge so quickly it even surprised LocalThunk: 'How did you do this so fast?'

"I sent him the video of the score, going, like, screw you. Yeah, I got it!" said Playstack's Wout van Halderen.

PC Gamer

"I looked it up and said ah, f***": As Balatro took over the world, another publisher was sweating over its own card roguelike – which LocalThunk then promoted himself

Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers came out just a few months after Balatro

GamesRadar

If Balatro had a hard time convincing rating boards it's not gambling, then this slot machine roguelite is gonna have twice as much trouble

Gamble or die in a 'never-ending debt simulator' Clover Pit.

PC Gamer

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

"Get a journal, a pen, and buy the game already": Balatro creator says new puzzle roguelike Blue Prince is "already one of the best games I've ever played"

LocalThunk thinks Blue Prince is a lock for a GOTY nomination

GamesRadar

"Catch my goofy a** card game in the new season": LocalThunk celebrates as Balatro appears in Black Mirror season 7, months after its creator proclaimed his love for the roguelike

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker is a huge Balatro fan

Total Film

Black Mirror's creator was so addicted to Balatro last year it's made it into the Netflix show

In an unexpected crossover between indie gaming and television, Balatro, the breakout indie game of 2024, makes a surprise cameo in Netflix’s Black Mirror.

Windows Central

Balatro scoops a BAFTA and Jimbo weirds it up on-stage: 'LocalThunk is really rich now… he has shoes made of gold and he thanks you for making him that way'

Also: play Animal Well.

PC Gamer

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Bafta Games Awards 2025: a great night for British gaming

Astro Bot won big, but so did local titles like Still Wakes the Deep and Thank Goodness You’re Here!

Evening Standard

Balatro solo dev Localthunk "is really rich now," says Final Fantasy 16 star while dressed as a clown: "He has shoes made of gold and he thanks you for making him that way"

What a strange BAFTA award acceptance speech

GamesRadar

"LocalThunk is really rich now": 2 weeks after winning yet another GOTY award, Balatro sends Final Fantasy 16 star to accept award in "suspiciously arousing" Jimbo attire

"This is weird isn't it?"

GamesRadar

Balatro creator LocalThunk is throwing his weight around to make sure Blue Prince gets some love at The Game Awards: 'Geoff my man I better see Blue Prince as a GOTY nominee'

Blue Prince is really good, and LocalThunk wants to make sure everyone knows about it.

PC Gamer

Wildly successful Balatro publisher says more indie devs need funding "that isn't based on making a ridiculous amount of money back"

Balatro recently crossed 5 million units sold

GamesRadar

YouTube is conducting a 'platform-wide review' after mistakenly hitting Balatro videos with an age restriction for gambling content

"Videos featuring Balatro gameplay should not be age-restricted."

PC Gamer

Balatro's creator has reached poker zen after beating every deck on every difficulty: 'All this time playing has killed any negative emotions I had toward it'

I have no enemies.

PC Gamer

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

GamesRadar

First PEGI, now YouTube - Balatro's LocalThunk seems tired of his roguelike game being age restricted for gambling-related concerns

"Good thing we are protecting children from knowing what a 4 of a kind is"

PC Gamer

YouTube has started age restricting Balatro videos for alleged gambling-related content, and creator LocalThunk is clearly getting sick of this sort of thing

"Good thing we are protecting children from knowing what a 4 of a kind is and letting them watch CS case opening videos instead."

PC Gamer

'You must have played this before!': Balatro's creator impressed bystanders with his Balatro skills at GDC, and nobody knew who he was

Like a king moving anonymously amongst his subjects.

GamesRadar

Balatro creator LocalThunk stays so anonymous, a GDC attendee couldn't believe how he "crushed" the roguelike's base difficulty: "'Wow you must have played this before!'"

"I guess you could say that"

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

PC Gamer

You've probably been pronouncing Balatro wrong all along, but 'it's kind of a gif/jif situation'

You say tomato, I say Balatro.

GamesRadar

League of Legends' take on Balatro is one of its best mini-games yet – and it's also exactly what's wrong with this era of League of Legends

The Demon's Hand is great - but doomed

GamesRadar

Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke says indie poker roguelike Balatro was his 2024 GOTY, beating out Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Astro Bot, and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Balatro racks up yet another accolade

GamesRadar

Biggest announcements from the Game Developers Conference 2025

From Helldivers devs potentially speaking at the UN to Netflix's first MMO to a new, industry-encompassing union

GamesRadar

Even Balatro's publisher doesn't know when LocalThunk will be done with 1.1: "Maybe I should whisper in his ear, like, 'So how's those 200 new jokers coming?'"

"I may hear it a couple days before everyone else"

PC Gamer

'He's just gonna show up one day and say, here's 100 new jokers:' Balatro's publisher doesn't know how big the 1.1 update will be or when it's coming

"I don't think he'll let us know when [Balatro 1.1] is gonna drop," said Wout van Halderen, the communications director at Playstack.

GamesRadar

"Balatro was a pain in the ass to market," but it started getting better once players started cracking open the demo so they could play forever

Publisher Playstack "knew it was so good because we couldn't stop playing it internally"

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.