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 …

ABSTRACT The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies remains the most
authoritative reference work for students and scholars interested in engaging with the …

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 …

Este artículo analiza el campo de la localización de videojuegos centrándose en las
diferentes estrategias utilizadas desde el punto de vista de los Estudios de Traducción. En …

What happened when Sesame Street and Big Brother were adapted for African audiences?
Or when video games Final Fantasy and Assassins' Creed were localized for the Spanish …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to show the particularities of the so-called “romhacking”, a
methodology developed by amateurs to localise mainly classic video games. In the first …

Video games are currently one of the fastest evolving media that have risen from obscurity
and conquered mainstream culture in less than fifty years. In 2012, its revenue was …

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 …