Tag: card game

Balatro’s LocalThunk isn’t ‘trying to pull a Banksy’, he just ‘wanted to be left alone to make his game’

Balatro’s LocalThunk isn’t ‘trying…

Balatro may have started as a small hobby project, but several awards and millions of copies sold later, it’s…
Winning $2

Winning $2.6 billion in…

I like playing poker. Let me rephrase that: I like playing fake poker, in videogames, so I’m always on…
The official Balatro Timeline documents the history of 2024’s biggest game as its developer went from ‘obsessed’ with making it to ‘shocked’ at the reception

The official Balatro Timeline…

By any measure, Balatro is a phenomenon. A weird little indie card game that came out of nowhere in…
Hearthstone card reveal: If it’s wrong to love a magic blue owl, I don’t want to be right

Hearthstone card reveal: If…

It is to my not insubstantial regret that I didn’t get around to writing about how fun Hearthstone’s Starcraft…
Early backers of game decry ‘bait and switch’ after it backtracks on monetisation promises, dev chooses to stir the pot: ‘Seeing Reddit lose it today lets me breathe a huge sigh of relief’

Early backers of game…

The Bazaar, after seven long years, is finally entering into open beta with a F2P package—and it’s, uh, not…
This Yu-Gi-Oh! retro collection transported me to a simpler time in TCGs, before Pot of Greed was banned and the Avengers were in Magic: The Gathering

This Yu-Gi-Oh! retro collection…

Some of my most cherished early videogame memories are of playing Yu-Gi-Oh games as a grade schooler while understanding…
7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables

7 years after it…

Poker Night at the Inventory was, for a very brief time, kind of a phenom in the world of…
7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables

7 years after it…

Poker Night at the Inventory was, for a very brief time, kind of a phenom in the world of…
Just under two weeks from its release date, devil’s bargain deckbuilder The Killing Stone announces it will be launching into early access instead

Just under two weeks…

“Inscryption-inspired card battler The Killing Stone gets a rad new trailer showing off voice talent from Critical Role and…
Balatro finally escapes its silly 18+ age rating, PEGI promises ‘a more granular set of classification criteria’ for gambling-themed games in the future

Balatro finally escapes its…

One of the most head-scratch-inducing videogame ratings of all time has finally been changed, as game rating organization Pan…