Pourquoi le phénomène Balatro est introuvable sur Switch
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 4 March - 08:39
Balatro, l'un des jeux vidéo très appréciés du moment, a été retiré de la vente sur Nintendo Switch. Son éditeur a évoqué un problème de certification, liée à une incompréhension.
This fiendish mashup of solitaire and poker has taken over my life
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 27 February - 09:15 · 1 minute
Last week, I downloaded a game called Balatro for a few casual turns on Steam Deck. I haven’t been able to think of much else since
I am one of those people who feels like crying when the rules of a board game are explained to me, so card games are generally not my thing. In real life poker, I inevitably get bored after a few rounds, go all in, and crash out spectacularly, just so something will happen. But real life poker is not Balatro. Balatro might be the best card game you will ever come across. I specifically left my Steam Deck at home this morning so that I would not sit at my desk playing Balatro instead of doing all the other, less fun things I am supposed to do at work, such as staring disconsolately at my perpetually overflowing email inbox. I think it will be one of the breakout games of the year. Join me, and it will suck you in, too.
Here is how you play. You’re dealt a hand of nine normal playing cards, and then you play the best four or five-card poker hand you can muster from them: flush, straight, three of a kind, all that. Then you’re scored on the hand, with satisfying, ratcheting “ding!”s, and you move on to the next one. You’re only ever playing against yourself: beat the points target, which at the beginning is maybe a few hundred easily scored points, and you move on to the next round.
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How A.I. Conquered Poker
stefan · Tuesday, 18 January, 2022 - 00:00 edit
Good poker players have always known that they need to maintain a balance between bluffing and playing it straight. Now they can do so perfectly.