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Roughly 70 employees will be impacted by the Bluepoint closure. Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year. The studio then spent the last year pitching and trying to determine what it would do next. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned. A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

Dirty Pair fans came out of the woodwork to back this project—to the tune of US$731,406 what they got were years of delays, authoring problems, and a disc wrapped in a napkin. What happened?

The loss of a true one-stop shop for anime fans hurts the industry as a whole, and a drive to cut inventory costs may be to blame.

Nioh 3, developed by Koei Tecmo and localized in 11 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. A few members of Localization staff are included in the LQA credits, but none of the actual translators are credited. Source: GamersPrey

OH, Look! Another game translated by magic! This right here is quite dangerous in these times. Why? By erasing us translators from our jobs it makes it easier to replace us with GenAI. We've always been invisible. That gave them a leverage in introducing MTPE and lowering our rates.

GKIDS is proud to announce the acquisition of North American rights to LABYRINTH. 💫 The first original feature film from Shoji Kawamori starring Suzuka from ATARASHII GAKKO! hits theatres May 10 & 11. brnw.ch/21wZCQK

Persona time!

HiDive announced they released the following Quality of Life features to their App • Continue watching feature that's sync'd across platforms • Auto play • Related Content Tab • Skip OP & ED Credits

Uh, no? That's LITERALLY what it means, you clowns. You are cancelling whatever you feel won't sell 10+ million copies, and so you're just gonna go back to the same tired open world crap that got you here in the first place.

"A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans" is an anime made by cowards, for cowards

Heads up, fellow LA fans! MediaOCD will be having our FIRST BOOTH EVER at @animelosangeles.bsky.social this weekend, along with a panel where we will announce something exciting! Come see us, make it all worth it please, this is a lot

Cygames will launch a new global version of the original Granblue Fantasy—separated from the Japanese release—for PC via Steam on March 10: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/19276-granblue-fantasy-will-be-formally-available-worldwide-on-pc-via-steam-on-march-10

Wizardry The Five Ordeals allows players to use their own custom character portraits and the soul vs soulless disparity has never been stronger than the chars people have shared ai art could never hope to compete with the raw power of scanning in your pencil & paper samurai HELL yea

i know it's a saturday, but i finally got some clips of miru and some additional voices i did in Wandance! i'm still so excited i voiced a named character in an anime for the first time. 🥹

New BLOG POST incoming! 2025 is about to end and we wanted to talk about our plans for 2026 and akso introduce a NEW FEATURE for #AlabasterDawn! Blog Post: www.radicalfishgames.com?p=7879

Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter will be a unified worldwide simultaneous release with all supported languages under the same game. Previously, 1st Chapter was still split between non-Asian territories & Korean/Chinese under 'Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter' & 'Sora no Kiseki the 1st' respectively.

With Digimon Movie Collection 2 showing up in people's hands, how about a little peek at one of the most complex sub effects we've done so far? The original dub replaced the Japanese credits with a Windows-themed overlay, so we copied that for ours.

So here's a scoop that someone tipped me off to this morning... You mean to tell me that a whole entire English dub of Magic Kaito 1412 has just been sitting there on an app for free...and only NOW is anyone finding it?! amasian.tv/video/series...

Here's what I like about Gang of Dragon. It looks like they're just using "real" Kabukicho, not the knock-off Kamurocho in the Yakuza games. Looks like this is the same real world gate as Ichibangai. First image here is Ichibangai, second is Yakuza's fictionalized Kamurocho gate on Tenkaichi Street

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かわいい魔女さん🫶

Netflix buying WB terrifies me, but there's a chance they're not full of shit about continuing theatrical and other legacy businesses. Neo-Paramount is VERY untested and early indications see them veering towards dude-bro crap. They could crash. WB by itself was over, we need to accept that.

...what??? Did they compress the audio so it would fit on a 4GB Switch cart???

Steam reviews have been coming in, and quell surprise my issues with the audio quality weren't just a nitpick but a genuine problem others have been noting too

ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN launches February 11, 2026 "Ultra-violent science-fiction" action game ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam on February 10, 2026 for $49.99, developer Grasshopper Manufacture announced. It will be self-published by Grasshopper…

While this article goes very rightly into the disrespect actors have faced in dubbing, underneath that is an entire ecosystem of abused and rushed freelancers doing the timecoding, adapting, directing, engineering, and mixing who Amazon also attempted to cut. www.avclub.com/amazon-ai-an...

every time amazon get caught doing this, they should have to immediately dub the series in question with real actors, engineers, staff, etc. as an act of contrition. build that shit in the contracts

Not terribly surprised they did it without permission, but lmaoooooo I hope this gets them snubbed for future licensing deals.

Kadokawa stated that it did not approve of an AI dub, and Sentai stated that it wasn't aware of the dub beforehand.

"Parable of the Man Who Invented Death" Sonny Boy (2021), Episode 11 "The Young Man and the Sea" Rajdhani - Siddhartha Minhas Nagara - Derrick Snow Director: Alexis Tipton Writer: Tyler Walker #WeWantRealDubs

BANANA FISH no longer has an English dub on Amazon

They might've OK'ed MAKING it, but there's no way anybody approved POSTING it. This is an industry that makes us revise the blurb on the back of a box multiple times before giving up and making us translate the Japanese one.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA I remain convinced that Amazon did not get permission to do this and as soon as the licensor got back into the office, some strongly worded emails were SENT

"kids if you don't stop activating that hallmark dreamcast ornament I'm going to make you actually play sonic adventure!" "NO DAD NO"

right on cue, in the ~week since this post, the majority of CR shows I watch have partially reverted. signs exist and are showing up on screen again, but generally unstyled and just sitting on the top or bottom (why put full effort in if you know it's going to be thrown out)

Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN. Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain. Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar. Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.

I know a few managers who told Upper Management that this was a bad deal. It's not saving time, it's not saving money, and it could hurt our brand if it damages the quality too much. But they wanted to stay the course, and they gave us a lot of different reasons why:

My manager grimaced and shrugged. "Yeahhhh, I know it's not ideal, and that doing it the way we always have would be better all around... but the CEO reeeeally wants us to start using more AI. Can we just do it for this project and... see how it goes?"

In private messages, we all agreed: this was bad for the shows, bad for consumers, and bad for our translation teams. No one was benefiting from this, except for the company's bottom line... and honestly, even that was all speculation. But complaining to our management didn't do much.

Then came the push to start using AI as part of our subtitling flows. "It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!" Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.

"Well, you can also use it to write client emails!" Emails are not the hard, time-consuming part of our job. Any person in the industry who's been here a while knows how to write an email. So literally none of us in the department were using AI.

We were encouraged to start using AI in our day-to-day work. Our direct department head did a 'tutorial' with us to show us how to use it... to automatically schedule weekly meetings for a project. Except we already could do that by hand, like, super easily.

At least two years ago, we got word from upper management that they want us to "start using more AI". Why? Because "they want to save time and money".

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely. They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things. Only you have the power to kill it.

Amazon has rolled out AI dubbed anime and I’m truly appalled. Like it or loathe it, the medium has a rich, incredible history of English performances. There’s already a million reasons to hate Amazon, but fuck me. I wanna hear about your fav dub. Your fav VA. Let’s celebrate these folks. 💜