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Here’s Why Hollow Knight: Silksong Is Getting Review-Bombed In China
5.9.2025
A poor translation has tanked Steam reviews from Chinese-language fans
The post Here’s Why <i>Hollow Knight: Silksong</i> Is Getting Review-Bombed In China appeared first on Kotaku
AI Translation Of Smash Bros. Director's Comments About AI Misses Nuance, Sparks Outrage
23.6.2025
After directing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and then taking a break from game directing to moonlight as a YouTuber and educate fans about game design, Masahiro Sakurai recently revealed he’s returned to development to work on Kirby Air Riders for Switch 2. But this past weekend, a comment Sakurai...
Long-Lost Xenosaga Spin-Off Has Been Recovered And Shared Online 21 Years Later
17.3.2025
A Xenosaga spin-off that was surprisingly important to the series’ story but was thought lost to the old Japanese mobile phone network it was released on has been recovered and shared online. The RPG Xenosaga: Pied Piper is once again playable, with a fan translation on the way. Read more
Everything We Learned About The Next Big Trails RPG
14.11.2024
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II will arrive in the West early next year, less than 12 months after its predecessor finally found its way stateside. While the sequel doesn’t sound like it will be as good of a jumping-on point as the first Trails Through Daybreak was, it will bring...
From Design to Development Without Translation: How to Find the Real Source of Truth
9.9.2024
Escape siloed design and engineering processes and speed up your product development by using code as your single source of truth. Let’s explore how
Breakthrough Gaming: How To Get Started With Action-RPG Series Ys
29.8.2024
When a game franchise has been running for nearly four decades, no matter how much it may look like something you’d enjoy, it can often feel impenetrable. Where should you begin? At the very beginning? With the most recent? The latest remake? It’s too easy to give up and walk away. But don’t...
Paper Mario Translation Wins, Suicide Squad Costume Fumbles, And More Of The Week's Top News
25.5.2024
You probably haven’t thought about the phrase “Gamer Girl Bath Water” in years, and maybe you were happy about that. If so, I’m sorry, but there’s been a new development, and we’ve got the details. Also, we’ve got some insight into what it’s like to trade in your Pokémon cards at GameStop, and...
Bitcoin.com News Expands Global Reach With Spanish and Russian Versions of Site
10.1.2024
In a nod to the ever-growing global impact of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin.com News has launched Spanish and Russian versions of its site, aiming to provide non-English speakers with the latest in crypto news and insights. Spanish and Russian Speakers Gain Direct Access to Crypto News as Bitcoin.com...
Hong Kong Firms Make First Cross-border Digital Yuan Commodity Payments
15.12.2023
Source: leungc/Adobe Hong Kong-based firms have made the first “cross-border” commodity payments with the Mainland Chinese digital yuan, as the CBDC takes its first international steps. Per Hong Kong Today, several Hong Kong firms took part in the Bank of China (Hong Kong)’s “Enterprise Digital...
Xbox Exec Says AI Can 'Take Care Of' All Sorts Of Game Dev Problems
29.11.2023
Xbox’s chief financial officer, Tim Stuart, recently shared how excited he was about AI technology being used in game development. During a November 28 summit, Stuart told audience that it can now translate and localize games, handle coding, and even test games, too, which begs the question:...
21 Years Later, This Cult-Classic Game Is Finally Playable In English
2.11.2023
Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, which translates to My Summer Vacation 2, is the sequel to the chill simulation game, Boku no Natsuyasumi. The game follows Boku on summer vacation with his family in the countryside, as he spends his time fishing, collecting stag beetles, and making new friends. The game...
‘AI has killed the industry’: EasyTranslate boss on adapting to change
20.9.2023
If you’re not transforming your business to take advantage of AI now, you’ll be left behind, says Easy Translate boss Frederik Pedersen
Upbit Publishes Complete Korean Translation of EU’s MiCA Laws – Crypto Regulation Incoming?
14.7.2023
Upbit, South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange, has published a full, translated text of the EU’s MiCA crypto regulation laws, a suggestion that Europe’s new rules could be impacting other nations.
Officially known as the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), these regulations have already served as...
5 AI tools for translation
24.6.2023
Explore AI translation tools, their features, benefits and pricing models to find the right solution for your translation needs
5 real-world applications of natural language processing (NLP)
25.4.2023
Chatbots, sentiment analysis, speech recognition, text summarization and machine translation are some examples of real-world applications of NLP
Chill Japanese Classic Is Finally Getting An English Translation
7.3.2023
Boku no Natsuyasumi is a long-running Japanese series that, with a weird and bad exception, has never been officially released in the West. That’s a shame! Where publishers have failed us, though, fans are stepping up and delivering the goods.Read more
Persona 3 & 4 Translators Left Out Of Game's Credits
24.1.2023
When Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden were released on new platforms last week, much was made of the fact that for the first time ever the latter was going to feature French, Italian, German and Spanish subtitles. That was great news for European fans, but the people most responsible...
Konami's Iconic Dating Sim Is Finally Being Translated Into English, Just Not The Version Everyone Wants
11.2.2022
An independent retro video game translator known appropriately as RetroTranslator recently announced that his team’s work translating Konami’s seminal 1990s dating simulator Tokimeki Memorial into English is almost complete. But there’s a catch: It’s the less-than-perfect Super Famicom port that’s...
There's One, Set For Stun
2.2.2022
Yannick Stahl is a freelance artist based in Germany.Read more
Obscure 2012 Yakuza Game Is Getting A Fan Translation
8.10.2021
While we are now spoiled for choice when it comes to major Yakuza games, from the mainline series to its more recent Judgment spinoffs, there are still a number of older Yakuza games that remain unplayable to fans in the West, since they never received a localisation.Read more