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Balatro<\/em>, the terrific card <\/a> that pushes you to break most of the rules of poker to achieve ever-higher scores, is in line for its first major gameplay update. You’ll have to wait until next year for that, but developer LocalThunk <\/a> it will bring “new ideas and strategies to the game.” What’s more, it will be a free update “as a token of huge appreciation to the game\u2019s brilliant and passionate community.”<\/p>\n This is the first of three Balatro <\/em>announcements\/surprises LocalThunk and publisher Playstack are revealing this summer (one of them has to be a mobile version, right?) just after the game reached two million sales. Some players might be a little nervous about the developer tinkering with a stupendously well-balanced title \u2014 which is surely going to end up on many people’s game of the year lists<\/a> \u2014 but LocalThunk has probably earned most fans’ trust at this point given how exquisitely designed and tuned Balatro <\/em>is already.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, LocalThunk this week doubled down on a promise never to let Balatro <\/em>be used for gambling purposes. The developer <\/a> he’s been approached by several parties over the last few months to license the intellectual property, “presumably to make Balatro<\/em>-themed gambling games like slots or video poker.” That’s something LocalThunk has firmly opposed though, to the point the developer has <\/a> that “the Balatro <\/em>IP may never be sold or licensed to any gambling company\/casino.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n