Today we want to celebrate all our fellow video game localizers in the industry and we thought this article was the perfect way to do it. This blog post was originally published on born to be global. Thanks Nataly Kelly for sharing this with us! For a long time, I wondered why many of the best professionals I met in the localization space seemed to come with gaming industry experience. I [...]

Introduction During the development of Frontier Development’s theme park simulation game, Planet Coaster, (released in 2016), a number of ideas were generated to aid in the building of this living world. The goal being that players could feel a tangible connection to the thousands of park guests they were attempting to entertain. One suggestion was the creation of a substitution language based on English, and thus, Planco was born. Planco [...]

Thomas Colombo, LQA Team Lead in the Games department of Alpha CRC, walks us through the essential activities and tasks of his job. From him, we can better understand the ins and outs of a person working in the video game localization industry. Before we dive into it, let’s refresh a few of the basic concepts of LQA in the video game industry. Why LQA? Localization Quality Assurance ensures that [...]

Think of videogame translators. Give them a face. In my opinion, they are soldiers. If the post-production of a game were a battlefield, translators would be specialized soldiers in camouflage, sent for reconnaissance in an unknown territory with little information on the enemy outposts. Their knowledge of the war scenery will possibly condition the entire upcoming battle. Their mission: to be undetected, whatever the cost. Game translators perform strong mimetic actions, their work depends [...]

This week we feature an article by Mirco Carlini about how gender awareness also plays an important role in video game localization and we want to do so by looking at some examples of the Italian version of the iconic Tomb Raider. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2020 edition of Multilingual Magazine.  Gender related issues in video games are certainly a hot topic right now, and it is a topic that has [...]

The gaming industry and the localization sector continue to expand These industries are projected to keep growing at a pace of 8-9% in the upcoming years. New technologies such as cloud gaming and virtual and augmented reality may have an impact on the industry in the near future, making the number of gamers and games skyrocket. What if the Netflix of videogames is around the corner? Can you imagine a similar revolution in the [...]

This week we feature an article from Miguel Sepúlveda discussing how a startup can take its first steps into localization. This post serves as a handy guide for those starting to explore localization, and can be consulted time and time again no matter which stage of global development your company is currently in.  Startups aren't known for dreaming small. World domination is in their DNA, and global domination means localization. It’s critical for startups [...]