{"id":22131,"date":"2025-02-26T02:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/balatro-finally-reclassified-as-12-as-pegi-decides-game-doesnt-include-gambling\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T02:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:05:42","slug":"balatro-finally-reclassified-as-12-as-pegi-decides-game-doesnt-include-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/balatro-finally-reclassified-as-12-as-pegi-decides-game-doesnt-include-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Balatro Finally Reclassified As 12+ As PEGI Decides Game Doesn\u2019t Include Gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue-like poker game and indie darling Balatro has finally overcome one of the biggest hurdles in its otherwise momentous release \u2013 having its 18+ rating revoked. The poker-themed game, which uses knowledge of the rules of poker, but features no gambling, had been slapped with a 18+ rating&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/gaming\/balatro-rating-change\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue-like poker game and indie darling Balatro has finally overcome one of the biggest hurdles in its otherwise momentous release \u2013 having its 18+ rating revoked. The poker-themed game, which uses knowledge of the rules of poker, but features no gambling, had been slapped with a 18+ rating&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}