Sorcerous cardgame Balatro and slot machine RPG Luck Be A Landlord have been reclassified as fit for people aged 12 ...

Balatro is now available for free to those with an Xbox Game Pass subscription, be they console or PC players. This comes alongside the Friends of Jimbo 4 pack, which features a ton of cameos from ...

It has been a triumphant month for Balatro with several wins at The Game Awards 2024 and the milestone of 3.5 million sales being passed – but the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI)’s change ...

The PEGI board announced today that they are revising the game’s rating from PEGI 18 — which effectively means inappropriate for children under 18 — to PEGI 12, due to complaints.

Oh, Balatro, you beautiful beast. Wrongly maligned as a gambling game and temporarily pulled from the PS Store after its PEGI rating was inexplicably raised to 18, creator Localthunk, who really ...

“The Complaints Board concluded that, although the game explains the various hands of poker, the roguelike deck-building game contained mitigating fantastical elements that warranted a PEGI 12 ...

One could say PEGI finally took the queen’s gambit. Balatro has finally gotten reclassified in Europe. As reported by TheGamer, PEGI has changed their mind and reclassified Balatro down to a 12 ...

Since then, however, Balatro's Pan European Games Information (PEGI) rating remained at 18+, until an appeal published earlier today revealed both Balatro and Luck Be a Landlord had successfully ...

But today, Balatro successfully won that appeal in Europe, earning itself a PEGI 12 rating and a lot more visibility on digital storefronts as a result. This all started in March of 2024 ...

The indie game was initially rated as 18+ by European games classification body PEGI, which forced publisher Playstack to remove it from sale on a number of digital stores. At the time ...

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