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

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

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

"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 ...

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 ...

Balatro may have started as a small hobby project, but several awards and millions of copies sold later, it’s easier to think ...

It's an effective twist, even if The Demon's Hand doesn't really offer the same deckbuilding depth as the games that have ...

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

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 ...

Balatro is based (very loosely) on poker, and has a simple premise: play a game of poker, using a standard deck of playing ...

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