Balatro finally escapes its silly 18+ age rating, PEGI promises ‘a more granular set of classification criteria’ for gambling-themed games in the future

One of the most head-scratch-inducing videogame ratings of all time has finally been changed, as game rating organization Pan European Game Information—PEGI for short—has decided that the indie card game sensation Balatro is not an 18+ game after all. “The PEGI 18 rating for the game Balatro has been changed to a PEGI 12 following…

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Monster Hunter Wilds reviews roundup: Either ‘a new peak for the series,’ or ‘may have lost its soul,’ depending on who you talk to

The embargo for Monster Hunter Wilds reviews has lifted ahead of its February 27 release, and the consensus is pretty positive. Wilds is within striking distance of a 90% score on both Metacritic and Open Critic, though there are rumblings that it may have been overly streamlined compared to prior games in the series⁠—that was…

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Bossa says ‘disruption’ in the game industry ‘is not a phase, it’s a fundamental transformation’ of how games will be made in the future as it lays off more employees

Bossa Games, the developer of Surgeon Simulator, I am Bread, and I am Fish, is laying off an undisclosed number of employees as it moves to “scale back” its development efforts in order to focus on the upcoming release of the open world co-op adventure Lost Skies. Bossa co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Olifiers acknowledged the…

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