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Rich Stanton

You've probably been pronouncing Balatro wrong all along, but 'it's kind of a gif/jif situation'

Live action Jimbo the Jester from Balatro holding a playing card and addressing the camera.

Balatro wasn't just PC Gamer's game of the year 2024: pretty much every developer seems hooked on it (including Swen Vincke). But unfortunately things have now taken a distressing turn.

There's an official way to pronounce Balatro, and it's not what I thought. I say Ba-lah-tro and so do most members of the PCG team. But Stephen Totilo over at Game File recently put the question to Naman Budhwar, head of marketing at the game's publisher Playstack, and he says otherwise.

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