The surprise hit has more on the way by Liam Doolan 26m ago One of the most popular releases of the year so far is the roguelike card game Balatro. Although it had some issues on Switch with it being temporarily removed from the eShop, it has since been brought back and has sold over ...
Birdie! The weekend is here, which means it’s time to dive into what we have planned for our Switches (and other consoles, we assume). Before that, though, let’s take a look at what’s happening this week. First, the Switch has received its latest firmware update, and while it’s not the most exciting thing in the ...
Picture: PlayStack Games / Kotaku Balatro, the popular roguelike deck-building game that is quickly taking over the world, has now sold over 1 million copies in less than a month. And good news for all of you Balatro Idiots out there (myself included): The popular card game is also being ported to mobile devices. I ...
Image: Playstack Good news for deckbuilding fans dying to play the indie hit Balatro, as the game is back on the Switch eShop today in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Just a week ago, the game disappeared from the Switch storefront due to “reaction to Balatro’s overnight age tag change.” Today, publisher Playstack took to ...
Image: Playstack LocalThunk’s excellent roguelike deckbuilder Balatro has been removed from various Switch eShops “without any prior warning” following an apparent age rating change from 3+ to 18+ by European rating board PEGI. Publisher Playstack released a statement via Twitter saying the publisher was “particularly disappointed with the actions of the ratings board” after being ...
Jim Norman, staff writer I wish I could say I’ll be playing something other than Balatra, really. Unfortunately, that would be a lie. Who would have thought that after a week of playing Pocket Card Jockey, what would distract me would be… more cards? Who cares! The numbers are beautiful and I can’t get enough ...
Recorded on Nintendo Switch (plugged in) Games like Balatro don’t come around very often. It’s the kind of experience that rushes through your mind until you can’t remember anything else, so you tell your friends about it, and then they tell their friends about it. In the end, through the sheer force of word of ...
