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 [...]

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 [...]

In this week’s article, Loreto tells us about her team’s experience localizing LEVEL-5’s Yo-kai Watch to cater to an English-speaking audience. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2020 edition of Multilingual Magazine.  A History of Yo-Kai’s The first Yo-kai Watch game was released in Japan in 2013. The [...]

This blog post is part of a series of articles I wrote about communication, data, and how to speak the language of your stakeholders in the interaction between your localization department and the rest of the company. The right use of data is important, as is using the proper [...]

By Lloyd Morin, Localization Editor at Playrix Who We Are At Playrix, we make mobile games that blend casual puzzles with storytelling, an approach that has proven to be popular. Playrix has always been a global company with players in every corner of the world. However, most of our [...]

This week’s contribution is part of an article by Cristina Anselmi and Inés Rubio that was published on Multilingual. If you want to know more about the basic principles of MT applied to video game localization, check out our previous article! Electronic Arts owns a large portfolio of titles [...]

This week we feature an article written by Cristina Anselmi, Machine Translation Specialist at EA and returning presenter at Game Global 2020, and Inés Rubio, a localization veteran with 15 years of gaming industry experience.  The original version of this article appeared in the March/April, 2020 edition of Multilingual.  [...]

Miguel Sepúlveda, one of the members of our Advisory Board, shares his thoughts on videogame localization after a fun trip to the Game On exhibition in Madrid last year. This past Christmas, I had the pleasure to visit the Game On exhibition in Madrid. This exhibition was both a [...]

Not all that long ago localization was considered effectively covered through FIGS, i.e. reaching target markets by translating and adapting an original English version into French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Pretty soon it became obvious that the world is a much bigger place, and that people are far more [...]