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Top 20 Language Games and Activities for Fun

By: Ricky vela Posted on Wed, 16-06-2021

Everyone knows that learning a language is not an easy task. It takes time and effort to learn any language other than your own mother tongue. Similarly, when it comes to teaching a new language, it takes a lot of effort into teaching a group of students. Especially if you are teaching a group of intermediate students. At this point, learning ...

12 Best Game Localization Companies

By: Peter Edward Posted on Fri, 13-11-2020

With the ever-changing technological landscape, few things have grown as exponentially as games. As more game manufacturing companies seek to capture international players’ interests, game localization has become even more important. While competing with global markets and having work involving multiple languages, it becomes necessary for a co...

What Languages to Translate Your Games Into in 2024

By: Shahzad Bashir Posted on Tue, 08-09-2020

Are you a game developer looking for ways to make it big in the world of games, but confused about where to start? Do your games have all the “right ingredients” that would make them an instant hit with the masses? If not, you need to know the markets out there, the languages they speak, and the most lucrative languages to translate your games...

Impact of COVID-19 on Global Gaming Industry

By: Eric Nelson Posted on Fri, 07-08-2020

At the start of 2020, game enthusiasts across the world were eagerly waiting for some of the biggest and most-awaited game releases of the decade. Little did they know that a global pandemic would disrupt all these game release plans and events, forcing them to be confined to their screens only for gaming sessions. As the world reels from ...

The Evolution of Gaming

By: Eric Nelson Posted on Tue, 08-05-2018

Gaming in the 21st Century According to research on the Game Report, every generation plays video games in every country. Compared to other entertainment channels like shopping and travelling etc., gaming is the cheapest way to satisfy our entertainment craving. Contrary to other types of traditional entertainment as mentioned above, gaming...

Advantages of Game Localization

By: Shahzad Bashir Posted on Mon, 07-05-2018

Advantages of Game Localization All games have a certain cultural background. A game based on a specific cultural background can adapt to the linguistic and cultural customs of other regions via localization to the regional language. Game localization is the process of customization of games in different local markets to adapt to the loc...

How to Prepare Terminology in Game Localization

By: Eric Nelson Posted on Sat, 28-04-2018

The Importance of Terminology Consistent use of terms in the game translation makes the translation more readable and the translated game more understandable. Wrong translation or inconsistent translation in the key terms may mislead the users while playing games, which causes poor user experience. Thus preparing a terminology list is an im...

Mobile Gaming Reloaded: Localizing the face of mobile Gaming

By: Shahzad Bashir Posted on Wed, 21-02-2018

Mobile Gaming Reloaded: Localizing the face of mobile Gaming Landscape   This is the age of accessibility and widespread reach. English is no longer the only language of global communication. Perhaps this is the reason that organizations are localizing themselves to ensure their businesses are able to reach everyone. The mobile gaming in...

Can Video Games Make You Smarter?

By: Eric Nelson Posted on Fri, 11-03-2016

Video games provide fun escape from reality, though they often portray violent, lazy and waste of time. The debate has been conducted from years, to know the impact of games, or video games can makes you smarter. Before getting into this debate, it is important to know too much of anything is bad. So you do nothing and just play video games th...

How to make game localization faster?

By: Shahzad Bashir Posted on Thu, 23-07-2015

It’s common to see gamers complaining how slow the game releasing in different regions, some even taking months. Even if game localization takes much less time than it used to, there are still cases of long delays between local releases. Speaking of the game translation, even an experienced translator won’t be able to handle much more than ...