While the star of Ball x Pit is its wacky Brick Breaker roguelite gameplay, its equally important other half involves a lot of town management. After the destruction of Ballbylon in the game's opening ...

The team behind the additive 2025 release BALL x PIT has announced it's back with "even more balls" in the game's "final free ...

For as long as I can remember, I've had trouble going to sleep. When I lay down, my mind inevitably starts racing a thousand miles an hour, thinking about anything and everything. On several recent ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

I find myself growing more and more tired of roguelikes lately, and I don’t really believe in “guilty pleasure” as a concept. But if you held a gun to my head and asked me to identify my gaming guilty ...

'It's like Balatro' is the most overused comparison in indie games, and yet I can't help but return to it every time I talk about Ball x Pit. There are no cards, no poker, no jokers, no bananas, no ...

Video games have been exploiting players’ brains since the halcyon days of the arcade where every cheap Shao Khan shoulder charge or blast from Krang’s ship was designed for maximum quarter extraction ...

Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...