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YouTube has started age restricting Balatro videos for alleged gambling-related content, and creator LocalThunk is clearly getting sick of this sort of thing
By Ted Litchfield published
news "Good thing we are protecting children from knowing what a 4 of a kind is and letting them watch CS case opening videos instead."

'You must have played this before!': Balatro's creator impressed bystanders with his Balatro skills at GDC, and nobody knew who he was
By Andy Chalk published
news Like a king moving anonymously amongst his subjects.

You've probably been pronouncing Balatro wrong all along, but 'it's kind of a gif/jif situation'
By Rich Stanton published
News You say tomato, I say Balatro.

PC Gamer vindicated by Swen Vincke: Larian boss calls Balatro his personal GOTY as it sweeps top prize from devs at GDC awards
By Joshua Wolens published
News All well and good that Balatro got its plaudits, but what truly matters here is that we were right.

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

Balatro's first demo could be edited with Notepad to unlock the whole game—the solution? 'Bury it as soon as possible' with a 'newer, shinier version'
By Harvey Randall published
News "It was very important to do that quick."

Balatro's LocalThunk isn't 'trying to pull a Banksy', he just 'wanted to be left alone to make his game'
By Justin Wagner published
News According to his publisher, LocalThunk’s anonymity is less about artsy obfuscation and more about minding his own business.

LocalThunk gave up making Balatro for 3 months but resumed because 'I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League'
By Rich Stanton published
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