Category: Video Games

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Is Google Translate Causing Developers to Revert Back to Mistranslations from the Days of the NES and SNES? »

You may think back upon games on the NES and SNES and remember – with amusement – the first time you came across mistranslations like “All your base are belong to us” and “I am Error.”   There are an extraordinary number of YouTube videos noting the lack of time and resources game studios used to [...]

Video Game Conferences January-December 2013 »

It’s a job and a half finding all of the industry conferences and events happening around the world, so we made life easier for you by providing a comprehensive list of over 100 video game conferences and locations/dates.  We even included relevant Twitter pages so you can stay up to date on the latest conference [...]

The Top 5 Myths & Facts about Video Game Translation & Localization: What Every Game Developer Needs to Know (Part 5 of 5) »

Fact: Over 50% of worldwide video game revenue comes from markets outside the US.   Despite the importance of making games available in a variety of languages for gamers across global markets, translation and localization is still a source of confusion for many developers.  Due to the number of easily-avoided issues encountered by game translation [...]

The Top 5 Myths & Facts about Video Game Translation & Localization: What Every Game Developer Needs to Know (Part 4 of 5) »

Fact: Over 50% of worldwide video game revenue comes from markets outside the US.   Despite the importance of making games available in a variety of languages for gamers across global markets, translation and localization is still a source of confusion for many developers.  Due to the number of easily-avoided issues encountered by game translation [...]

The Top 5 Myths & Facts about Video Game Translation & Localization: What Every Game Developer Needs to Know (Part 3 of 5) »

Fact: Over 50% of worldwide video game revenue comes from markets outside the US.   Despite the importance of making games available in a variety of languages for gamers across global markets, translation and localization is still a source of confusion for many developers.  Due to the number of easily-avoided issues encountered by game translation [...]

The Top 5 Myths & Facts about Video Game Translation & Localization: What Every Game Developer Needs to Know (Part 2 of 5) »

Fact: Over 50% of worldwide video game revenue comes from markets outside the US.   Despite the importance of making games available in a variety of languages for gamers across global markets, translation and localization is still a source of confusion for many developers.  Due to the number of easily-avoided issues encountered by game translation [...]

The Top 5 Myths & Facts about Video Game Translation & Localization: What Every Game Developer Needs to Know (Part 1 of 5) »

Fact: Over 50% of worldwide video game revenue comes from markets outside the US.   Despite the importance of making games available in a variety of languages for gamers across global markets, translation and localization is still a source of confusion for many game developers and publishers.  Due to the number of easily-avoided issues encountered [...]

How Video Game Translation Differs From Other Types of Translation »

At Language Automation, Inc. (LAI), we focus specifically on the translation and localization of video games and ensure all of our translators have experience within the video game industry.  Why is this important? Well, have you ever tried to explain a video game to your parents, grandparents, significant other, anyone who isn’t a gamer?  Assuming [...]