Roguelike indie card game Balatro has been rated 18+ by the European video game content rating system PEGI. The game's anonymous solo developer, LocalThunk took to X (formerly Twitter) to share his ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

It’s clear that PEGI don’t understand the industry at all. Balatro was a big surprise winner in this year’s The Game Awards. It was certainly the one small game that got nominated for GOTY, and some ...

If you’ve played Balatro, you’d know that the game includes poker hands, because they are the hands you can play in order to score points, and playing hands specific to the Joker cards you have active ...

Roguelite indie card game Balatro has been reclassified by European video game content rating system PEGI from 18 to 12. Balatro was rated 18+ by PEGI in December after the ratings board said it ...

Balatro developer LocalThunk fires back at PEGI for giving Balatro an 18+ rating, claiming the game teaches players how to play poker and includes gambling.