💼 Game job info for JP-pair bilingual professionals: Cygames (Umamusume, Granblue Fantasy, etc) has several loc-related positions open for various JP-based bilingual pairs (JP to EN, FR, IT, DE, ES, or zh-CN). More info: recruit.cygames.co.jp/career/?sear...

Just in case Uncle Bob decides it's time to talk politics tonight and you want to dip out for a bit...

'Tis the season of giving, so we're sharing the joy of gaming (in many languages 👀)! What was your GOTY this year? PS: If you wish to participate, make sure you reply to From the Void's post, not this one!

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.

Fun fact: Some titles have funny premade taglines, here's how the E33 one looks like in English and in French

consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.

Looking for some reading material over the holidays? Introducing LocRewind 2025, a recap of all the news, YouTube essays, Reddit threads, banger tweets and assorted localization drama that made headlines this year!

Seriously, localization teams going from actively barred from appearing in credits to being thanked during the biggest show of the year... It means the world, and shows how much we've grown as an industry. Un immense merci à Guillaume et Jennifer !

Ahead of the holidays, @aleksdanilov.com and I have started a new challenge: Take games from each other's collection (usually genres we're not at all into) and try to play them for at least 2-3 hours. What should we start with? 👀

......I'm back? Just a quick one summarizing the anime enshiffitifaction we've been experiencing the past 6 months (AI-subs, shitty typesetting, AI-cc, and AI dubs.) I'll be back to my deep-dives on animanga localization next year, TBD.

Le saviez-vous ? Pour la première fois, tous les jeux nommés aux Game Awards citent dans leurs crédits leurs équipes de traduction. Une petite victoire au cœur d'un long combat, articulé notamment autour du hashtag #TranslatorsInTheCredits. #TheGameAwards www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

To my fellow translators: what do you wish someone had taught you about translation (whether the act or translation or having a freelance job) that you had to learn by yourself?

Je poste ce message dans l'espoir que peut-être je m'apercevrai que je connais un ou une traducteur/traductrice assermenté·e de l'allemand vers le français ; auquel cas, je souhaite donner de l'argent à cette personne en échange de ses services sur un document de 4 pages. L'épine, le pied, tmtc.

Looking at the full credit list (www.mobygames.com/game/245425/...), most of the people in the Contractors category are not even credited under "real" role names, simply "Contractor", "Embark Team" or "Special Thanks". No mention of voice acting or localization either.

I was recently interviewed by Eleanor Warnock regarding the exploitation of passion, the devastating impact of machine translation/AI on the localization industry, and how collective action can bring about positive change. www.eleanot.es/p/the-human-...

My first career (community manager), I was constantly posting on Aion forums to complain about this or that feature/bug, so NCsoft's CM team brought me on board to shut me up (they were super nice about it tho) 👍

Hello language nerds! (affectionate) We're looking for someone to localize the demo for @truthscrapper.bsky.social into PT-BR. Due to grant restrictions, you MUST be based in Ontario, Canada. If that's you, please reach out with your experience and rate per word via DM to me. Thank you!

Yes MemoQ, this is how languages work, now leave me alone

For the first time since its inception, I'm happy to report that ALL nominees of #TheGameAwards include #TranslatorsInTheCredits! We've come a long way since the dark days of credit withholding, and none of this would've been possible without your support!

Rue Valley (Emotion Spark Studio | @owlcatgames.bsky.social) and its captivating time loop are finally out, and we're delighted to announce that we have translated this narrative adventure into French alongside @locdandloaded.net, who helped us with the prologue 🕣

The GabeCube is real

"This use of GenAI is fine because VAs signed contracts to relinquish their rights". Well yeah, have you seen what happens to those who don't want to sign off on this? Can you really call that consent when the alternative is losing (or never getting) a job?

So, hmm... the great @locdandloaded.net just finished compiling ALL of Hades II's MULTILINGUAL songs. This is an insanely precious resource for anyone interested in lyrics localization. Many thanks to her for this amazing effort 🤍 locdandloaded.net/hades-ii-mul...

One more for the pile (original credit: bsky.app/profile/bolt... ; reposted the screenshot in higher res)

My Wordpress instance is starting to get so bloated that my media gallery is collapsing on itself and half of my plugins are one update away from breaking the entire website

Merci à @killylog1.bsky.social de m'avoir longuement laissé la parole dans le nouveau @jvlemag.com pour décrire la dégradation des conditions de travail dans la traduction de jeu vidéo à cause des délires autour de l'IA. J'ai pu placer ma meilleure punchline 🥊

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Halloween draws near, and you know what's truly scary? Being made as invisible as a ghost by a bunch of corporations, buried under literally everybody else in a credit roll. Such as here in The Quarry (2022), a title localized in 19 languages. And of course, no #TranslatorsInTheCredits... 👻

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★ Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason daiz.moe/crunchyroll-... A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes! Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

My worst nightmare

I had the opportunity to help @casting-whispers.bsky.social with the launch trailer! youtu.be/8bu5QAmqrFI Go check it out on Steam right now! (It's 10% off!)

Picture this exact scenario, but it started happening a decade ago and now every agency you work with won't shut up about you taking more time for less pay to correct their magic machine's mistakes and you'll have just the slightest idea what your games' localizers have put up with this whole time.

This was spotted at Gamescom Asia last week. 0,01$ per word to edit AI slop. DMM's website says: "Average cost reduction: Appx. 75% Translation time reduction:50%" They forgot the most important stat: "Quality reduction: 100%"

TDs have always been one of my fav genres (ask me how many hours I wasted on DOTA back in WC3...), so when the good people of @locquest.bsky.social offered me to translate Repel the Rifts into French, I just couldn't resist! Glhf, Commanders :)

Honest, some of my best-performing posts are the ones using the crunchiest MS Paint illustrations. It's genuinely a better tool to attract attention that anything GenAI could shit out. Embrace your inner doodler.

Started a new Hades 2 save file; I've been switching the language to Japanese now and then out of curiosity, and the localization team absolutely knocked it out of the park! Lots of smart, hard-hitting reformulations, and clever handling of tricky wordplay—it's really inspiring stuff 😍

From my book about #Undertale 's official English-to-Japanese translation I'd like to expand on this for an article on my site, so if you have any examples of "imprinting" situations in fandoms, please let me know Some quick examples include FF4, FF6, Trails in the Sky, what else?

Good stuff, see you in 7 years 👍

Localization budgets tend to be a very well-guarded secret, but thanks to SGG's transparency, we can at least make an educated guess for Hades II: The cost of localizing the game's 380.000 words into 14 languages was approximately $1.5m. Read more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Undertale fête ses 10 ans aujourd'hui. Le jeu existe en anglais, en japonais... et c'est tout. Faute de réponses de la part des intéressés (Toby Fox, Fangamer ou 8-4), j'ai interrogé l'équipe de talentueux fans qui ont traduit en français eux-mêmes (et GRATOS) ce jeu vendu des millions d'exemplaire.

You can be anything in this life. I recommend happy. Xox MASSIVE canvases now available at electric gallery! Xox

Finally got confirmation that Testronic closed its studios in Madrid and Belgrade. The company shared those details while also announcing an undisclosed but ‘significant’ investment that will enable ‘accelerate growth.’

Btw, Silksong's script stands at about 90.000 words total. A pro TL would need about 2 months to translate that much, and that's with an additional editor pass.

Hell Is Us by #RogueFactor and published by @nacon.bsky.social does not credit its translators. Only this year, ACE Agency has failed to provide the names of its contractors in two more games: Architect Life by Shine group (@nacon.bsky.social) SONOKUNI by Don Yasa Crew (@kakehashigames.com)

Sometimes I wonder why people say Reddit is a cesspool. Then I read things like this, and I get it.

And final update on the matter: Palworld credits now feature 40+ new names across a dozen languages :) #TranslatorsInTheCredits www.pocketpair.jp/palworld/pal...