Month: April 2025

The poker roguelite Balatro has built a strong and loyal community of players thanks to the many different ways the game can surprise you during a run. Today–two weeks before the game launches on mobile devices–developer LocalThunk has seemingly confirmed a feature that looks like a glitch, but is instead working as intended.

This exploit, which was brought to light in a YouTube video by BelenosBear, involves the Misprint joker card, and more specifically, it centers around the seemingly random text that flashes in the Misprint’s ability text.

Basically, if you pause during a Balatro run, go to your collection of cards in the pause menu, and then go to Misprint, once in a while random numbers, letters, and symbols will flash in the ability text. As it turns out…

The release of a new Call of Duty game is almost always one of the best-selling titles in any given year. But since Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 debuted on Game Pass on day one of its release, there was some question as to whether this would diminish the title’s impact and sales across Xbox Series X|S and other platforms. It’s too early to render a final judgment about that, but so far, one analyst says that Black Ops 6 wasn’t hurt at all by being on Game Pass.

“Call of Duty engagement following the release of Black Ops 6 can only be defined by the term ‘bonkers,'” Circana analyst Mat Piscatella wrote on Bluesky. “We’ve yet to see anything like it in our engagement tracking data… There’s been an ongoing debate about Game Pass and its impact on sales and it’s never been settled beca…