I often get questions from aspiring translators about what kind of job I have and how to break into the translation industry, so I thought I’d write a FAQ-style post answering these questions once and ...

Game developers are becoming increasingly dependent on fans and enthusiasts to quality test their work. Localization quality is taking a critical hit. But modern games still struggle to get ...

A recently released open-source app called PlayTranslate lets you play untranslated games in your language. The app uses online or offline capabilities to translate in-game text to almost 60 languages ...

Machine learning has made its way into nearly every industry, and game localization is no exception. Software providers claim that their machine translation products mark a new era in localization, ...

The developers behind RetroArch, the popular one-stop shop for retro gaming emulation, announced a new feature over the weekend: translating Japanese text to English on the fly. The results aren’t ...

Arol is a tech journalist who worked as a news and feature writer for Android Police from 2021 to 2023. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum ...

In July 2020, Seekers Notes, a mobile game developed by MYTONA, celebrated its 5th anniversary. For these five years, players from all over the world have explored the mysterious estates, old alleys, ...

Translating is hard work, and doing so within the constraints of the RPG Maker engine adds an additional level of challenge. I reached out to vgperson to see what I could learn about her process, and ...