Balatro developer LocalThunk is notoriously private. It's not some kind of put-on: Wout van Halderen, communications director ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The creator of Balatro has revealed fresh details on the hit indie card game's development, including the fact he gave up playing other roguelikes for more than two years to avoid subconsciously ...

Ever since its release and subsequent success in 2024, indie hit Balatro has garnered attention for a somewhat surprising and amusing reason. That being how you're actually supposed to pronounce ...