Game localisation is a type of audiovisual translation that has gradually been gathering
scholarly attention since the mid-2000s, mainly due to the increasing and ubiquitous …

Video games are nowadays conceived as global products; localised versions are produced
in parallel with the original one, which enables shared authorship and the possibilities of co …

The present paper investigates a largely ignored topic in Arabic translation studies: video
game localization. It attempts to establish scholarly discussion about this field by analyzing …

Widely played all over the world, video games have led to a thriving industry whose global
boom owes much to the significant contributions of audiovisual translation and game …

Today, an increasing number of people are playing video games, hence the continued
growth of the game industry's annual revenue, surpassing $150 billion in 2019, exceeds …

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 …

We present in this article what we believe to be one of the first attempts at video game
machine translation. Our study shows that models trained only with limited in-domain data …

The sociological study of video games from the perspective of Translation Studies is a
largely uncharted territory. The present study seeks to address this gap by shedding light on …

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has an active gaming community, with
Arab gamers being reliant on games produced in Europe, America, and Japan due to the …

The nuances involved in game localization call for an expert workforce, well-versed in
dealing with the challenges involved. Yet, the prospect of game localization is still a blue …