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Balatro's publisher beat gold stakes and the Jokerless challenge so quickly it even surprised LocalThunk: 'How did you do this so fast?'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "I sent him the video of the score, going, like, screw you. Yeah, I got it!" said Playstack's Wout van Halderen.

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'
By Rich Stanton published
News Also: play Animal Well.

YouTube is conducting a 'platform-wide review' after mistakenly hitting Balatro videos with an age restriction for gambling content
By Andy Chalk published
news "Videos featuring Balatro gameplay should not be age-restricted."

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'
By Harvey Randall published
News I have no enemies.

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.
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