A helpful PEGI rating is apparently even better than botox, as Balatro exudes youthfulness one year after its release. The deck builder would undoubtedly have a much more sickly aura had it not been ...

European videogame rating system PEGI has officially rescinded its 18 label for Balatro, after complaints were lodged with the board concerning its relationship to gambling. PEGI now says the ...

PEGI acknowledged that the Balatro situation highlights the need for it to change its rating system and has consequently decided to develop more granular classification criteria to account for ...

Balatro has been hit with an 18+ rating by PEGI, a European age rating system that's used in more than 35 countries, over its allusions to real-world gambling. The game's developer, LocalThunk ...

Balatro, the hit roguelike with poker imagery and poker hands but no actual gambling, no longer has a PEGI 18 rating in Europe following an appeal, PEGI announced today. PEGI is also changing the ...

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 ...

The slot machine-themed Luck Be a Landlord’s rating was also downgraded today via appeal by publisher Fangamer. Moving forward, PEGI promises to “develop a more granular set of classification ...

It is future-proof and has been developed as part of the PEGI age ratings system which is featured on all boxed products released across Europe. “For us, the UN’s commitment to PEGI Online is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now, following an appeal submitted by the publisher, PEGI have amended their original decision, instead rating the game 12+. “The PEGI 18 rating for the game ‘Balatro’ has been changed to a ...

About a year ago, developer Localthunk commented on PEGI's perceived mishandling of the game's rating after it was pulled from sale in some countries due to a "mistaken belief that the game ...