Balatro News

[p]Hi everyone,[/p][p][/p][p]Some new merch has joined the Balatro universe![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]We’ve teamed up with Fangamer to release the 2026 Balatro Calendar, available now for $19.[/p][p][/p][p]The Joker-themed calendar puts Ben Starr in the role of several jokers from the game, and no, we don’t have any dirt on him; he genuinely likes being part of the Balatro Universe.[/p][p][/p][p]All profits from Playstack and LocalThunk will be donated to SpecialEffect and Extra Life, supporting players of all abilities. In addition, our partner Fangamer will donate $5 for every copy sold through its store.[/p][p][/p][h3]Buy it here: [/h3][p][/p][p]For ordering in the US and worldwide: [/p][p]https://www.fangamer.com/products/balatro-wall-calendar-2026[/p][p][/p][p]For ordering in the UK and EU: [/p][p]https://www.fangamer.eu/products/balatro-wall-calendar-2026[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p]

Balatro's free 1.1 update won't release in 2025 as originally planned, developer Localthunk has announced. There's no new release date, but they say the update'll arrive when they've been able to complete it, while continuing to work at a healthy pace.

This update was first announced by publishers Playstack in August last year, with Localthunk subsequently revealing in a chat with Bloomberg that it'll feature, among other stuff, some new jokers and a revamp of the Matador card. The latter dishes out a cash boost whenever you play a hand that triggers a boss blind's ability.

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A new Assassin's Creed Shadows update is here, version 1.0.5, with this one mostly having a focus on parkour improvements. There are, however, a couple of collaborations that have arrived in the game too, one with Dead by Daylight, and another with Balatro. We'll get to those in a second, for now let's take a look at those parkour tweaks.

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Today in "news that will get you banished from society if you try to explain it to anyone who doesn't live on the internet," the owner of an erotic Balatro subreddit has had their moderator status revoked from the main subreddit after a brief civil war surrounding AI generated art culminated with developer LocalThunk intervening. Cheers to Garbage Day for the spot.

Many threads lie dead and buried in the bloody wake of all this, but the brief rundown is that moderator DrTankHead - who also runs r/balatromance - waded into the following thread:

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