The objective of this book is to introduce the specialized translation sub-domain known as
“game localization”(Chandler 2005) within the more established domain of localization. In …

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It
offers a descriptive analysis of the industry–understood as a global phenomenon in …

Game localisation is an emerging field in Translation Studies that initially began attracting
attention in the late 1990s, when the first studies analysing this new translation phenomenon …

Despite a greatly increased volume of research over the past decade, audiovisual
translation (AVT) and media accessibility and its main services (dubbing, subtitling, subtitling …

«This little gem offers the reader an overview of the various practices that form part of the
ever increasing field of audiovisual translation (AVT) and makes brave inroads into the less …

Japanese video games have entertained players around the world and played an important
role in the video game industry since its origins. In order to export Japanese games …

This book explores the impact of a video game's degree of realism or fictionality on its
linguistic dimensions, investigating the challenges and strategies for translating realia and …

Digital technologies have accelerated the pace of change not only in film and TV production
and distribution, but also in Audiovisual Translation. Audiovisual Translation is an academic …

This chapter aims at providing an overview of the existing reception studies in the area of
game localisation. After briefly describing the main characteristics of game localisation and …

The study of linguistics applied to computer science is a much-discussed topic today. In this
area, particularly relevant is the software localization process describing the linguistic and …