Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Steve Kupferman
Publication Date: February 6, 2025 - 07:00
Inside the stunning success of Balatro, the video game sensation made by an anonymous Canadian
February 6, 2025
One of Canada’s biggest international cultural successes of the past year didn’t play on movie screens or stream on Netflix. It wasn’t for sale in bookstores and will never hang on a gallery wall.It’s called Balatro, and it’s a video game – one whose maker won’t reveal his name or even the name of the province he lives in, and who says he has mixed feelings about the success of his creation, which has been purchased millions of times since it launched last February.
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