In the span of two years, Jack Black has starred in three video game movies: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Borderlands, and ...

"One of my fav moments from GDC," LocalThunk says in a series of posts on Bluesky. "They had a booth set up to play Balatro ...

Balatro is one of my favorite games of 2024, and you can grab this Steam Deck indie hit at a massive 47% off in this limited ...

Developers and creatives close to LocalThunk finally settled a question of how to say 'Balatro', but it's kind of a 'we're ...

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 ...

Balatro is one of GameSpot's best games of 2024, and it has received numerous awards and nominations at shows like the 2025 ...

The publishers of Balatro have offered an official explanation for how to pronounce the game's title, for anyone still ...

Balatro was one of the surprise hits of 2024. It is a roguelike deck-building game with a poker theme. And, while that poker ...

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

The anonymous creator of Balatro impressed passersby at last month's Game Developer Conference with his card skills, but nobody recognised him.

You see, while we've all been raving about how great "ba-LAH-tro" is, it turns out, Localthunk, perhaps drunk on his newfound ...

LocalThunk was at the Game Developers Conference this week meeting with other developers, but van Halderen and Cheng-Moore ...