📣 The legendary gaming awards everyone was waiting for have arrived!📣 Please give a big round of applause for From the Void's Gaming Awards 2025 🏆 It's sassy, salty, cynical and ruthlessly dissing the industry. Take your time & enjoy the treat 🍬

Yeah, that’s not happening.

To everyone in this crazy industry: happy new year! 🥳 Fellow translators, any resolutions for 2026? ... and any advice on how to maintain them? 📝

I barely made it, but here I present to you the @fromthevoid.net Gaming Awards 2025. Maybe a bit heavier than previous years, but hey, that's the world for ya 🙃 ⬇️ fromthevoid.net/blog/gaming-...

Bye 2025 💫 This year, we have: 👉 Localized 13 games 👉 Started working on 20 more 👉 Translated 2 million words into 15 different languages 👉 Kept working with our clients despite the AI surge. We're extremely proud of what we made with our human hands & so grateful for our wonderful collaborators 🤍

I've been swallowed by the V Rising black hole these Holidays so I'm late in producing the @fromthevoid.net Gaming Awards, but here are two very cool articles we published this year, in the meantime ✨

Briefly interrupting your holidays for a cute reminder that:

2025 is coming to an end and we are lucky to have people like @locdandloaded.net to keep track of everything that happened this year. A marvelous recap of all the news, video essays, threads, tweets & localization drama of 2025 ✨ ⬇️

This month marked the 30th anniversary of the Tales of series. A series we love, except for the fact that, as @lizbushouse.bsky.social demonstrates, it stopped properly crediting its translators as of 2014. But can you guess which agency does figure in the credits? ⬇️

To everyone celebrating: we hope this Christmas means laughter, warmth and soul nourishing food. We hope it means time to unwind and enjoy being with your family, friends or pets. And if it doesn't, we wish you peace & beauty, even in unwanted gathering or solitude 💝 💫

Merry Christmas & congrats to @ezelb.bsky.social for winning our giveaway 🥳 🎄 Many thanks to all of the people who participated. We wish you a beautiful end of the year 🤍 (The other winner has been announced on our LinkedIn account!)

🎁 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 🎁 Offered by @locdandloaded.net, 2 Steam gift cards for you or your loved ones 💝 To participate: 🤍 Follow both accounts 💬 Tell us your fav game of 2025 & in which language you played! (bonus if you share a screenshot of your fav line) 🔄 Repost this Results for Xmas, on the 24th 🎄

The loathing whispers... Congratulations to @relaxedgamer.bsky.social, @wilsonet9.bsky.social & @teskariel.bsky.social 🥳 Dark adventures await... and your Steam keys are on their way 🗝️⚔️

🎁 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 🎁 Our last Xmas gift is a game we dearly love and fully localized into 12 languages: Darkest Dungeon II 🖤 You have 24h to try & win 3 Steam bundles of the base game + its DLCs! 🤍 Follow us 💬 Tell us in which language you'll play 🔄 Repost this Results tomorrow, on the 24th 🎄

'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!

I'm obviously ineligible for this giveaway, but I'd like to share one of my favorite games from 2025 as well - Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, which is a lovely co-op game that takes concepts from Pikmin and Factorio. What's not to love? Check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/1817800/...

🎁 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 🎁 Offered by @locdandloaded.net, 2 Steam gift cards for you or your loved ones 💝 To participate: 🤍 Follow both accounts 💬 Tell us your fav game of 2025 & in which language you played! (bonus if you share a screenshot of your fav line) 🔄 Repost this Results for Xmas, on the 24th 🎄

Congrats to @xsodust1.bsky.social, @viralgeenie.bsky.social & @mayastonizes.bsky.social for winning a one-way ticket to Hell with Shotgun Cop Man 💥 Your Steam keys are on their way!

Calling brothers Trewe Mo, Samson Kielschieber and Kirjainkoukero 🥳🎄 A.k.a @greatdekutree.bsky.social, @sammysammysam.bsky.social & @redvan77.bsky.social: congrats on winning our Inkulinati giveaway! Your keys are on their way to you now 🪶🗝️

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Here are our winners! 🥳 Congrats to @shinu-y.bsky.social, @cleopatraez.bsky.social, @kalcaser9.bsky.social, @jonathan50o.bsky.social, @scorpio7656.bsky.social, @crazygameszz.bsky.social, @psypphm.bsky.social & @snakeboyz.bsky.social 🎁 Your keys are on their way to you now 🎄

🎄We have our winners!🎄 Congrats to Janek Żelazny, Latomicious & Velvet Death... a.k.a @benetroxsky.bsky.social, @rainharlock.bsky.social & @happypegion.bsky.social! 👑 Get ready for your upcoming fights, your Steam keys are on their way to you now ⚔️

🎁 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 🎁 Bored during family reunions? Fear not, we're offering 3 Steam keys for the epic 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗴𝘂𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗽 𝗠𝗮𝗻 by @deadtoast.com & @devolverdigital.com💥 To participate: 🤍 Follow us 💬 Tell us in which language you'll kick Satan's ass 🔄 Repost this! Good luck🍀 Results December 20th! 🤞

🎁 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 🎁 Our next gift is the most unique turn-based strategy game: 𝗜𝗻𝗸𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶 by @yazagames.com 🪶 To try & win 3 Steam keys: 🤍 Follow us 💬 Tell us what would your medieval scribe name be (bonus points if it's related to your native tongue) 🔄 Repost this! Good luck🍀 Results December 20th! 🤞

🎁 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 🎁 In partnership with our friends @tinybuildgames.bsky.social, we're offering 2 Steam keys for each of these games we lovingly localized 💝 To participate: 🤍 Follow us 💬 Tell us which game you want & in which language you'll play! 🔄 Repost this Good luck! Results on the 19th 🤞

"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA" Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/ #traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF

🎁 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 🎁 Our first Xmas giveaway is on! And we have the perfect game for you to relax... Bloodgrounds ⚔️ To try & win 3 Steam keys: 🤍 Follow us 💬 Tell us what would your gladiator name be (bonus points if it's related to your native tongue) 🔄 Repost this! Good luck🍀 Results December 19th! 🤞

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Happy #SaturdayVoidRec💫 everyone! Sea of Stars is a beautiful (J)RPG inspired by the classics you might have heard about. This indie gem definitely deserves its fame... plus you can play co-op, a fun twist to your usual turn-based combat✨ Curated by our dear @bigbadwolframio.bsky.social 🤍

Giveaway season has officially started... Maybe you should keep our social media in view next week 👀 🎁 🎄

Pretty close to our From the Void awards, 10/10 would recommend 🏆

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?

Roboto Global isn't paying its translators. AAA studios working with them need to realize what's going on - Blizzard, CD Projekt Red, Riot... This needs to stop: translators should be treated as precious & skilled professionals, not random disposable assets. www.linkedin.com/posts/adrian...

Seems reasonable to us...

Days are shorter, it's cold outside and we're getting sick of reading about AI everyday. Care to share what feels bright for you these days? Or maybe just a picture of a fluffy pet? 🥺

This #SaturdayVoidRec💫 , we'd like to offer a party game to keep you warm during these chilly evenings to come: @boomerangfu.bsky.social! 🪃 Frantic physics, ridiculous power-ups and high levels of treachery await you in this ultimate party hit - one of our Russian translators' all times fav 🤍

"Many developers shared that avoiding generative AI was not only a matter of personal pride, but also a matter of professional marketing." Here we go ✊

"A translator is..."

I'm pretty sure this is how we felt.

Names are probably among the most challenging things to localize. Although sometimes... They can be a lot of fun to work with 🎭 In Once Upon a Puppet, most characters have tree names that pair as ordinary names in English. Let's see how we adapted them into Spanish 👇 🪵

"I can see translation communities being more and more vocal about unethical practices in localization in general (...). Just a few years ago, almost nobody was talking about this." @locdandloaded.net talking about #TranslatorsintheCredits, just what we needed 💯

Crunchyroll's feedback form is here, if you're looking for it. And for the record, you can submit feedback even if you don't have an active account: help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/req...

AI - and CEOs that never played a game in their lives. But also AI.

A very cute, sweet and chill #SaturdayVoidRec💫 to you all! Here comes Make Room by @kenney.nl, a relaxing building/decorating game with lots of customization options that we fell in love with. Perfect for a warm & cozy wintertime ❄️🏠 Curated by our @alkapibara.bsky.social 🤍

"In translating poetry you try to make it rhyme. You have such restrictions on how you can do it, [...] you have to be really creative on how you do it." This piece tackles the subtleties of translating movie subtitles, but it definitely applies to games too 🤍

Getting one step closer... "Who cares if it's a lot of people? Who cares if it's long? They all did something and they deserve credit" 🤍

For this #WishlistWednesday, we'd like to share a title from our team's very own loc wishlist: Ribbit Rogue by kingkrabgames.bsky.social is a dice deckbuilding roguelike with the coolest hero 🐸 Dear dev, if you hear us, your game is absolutely our jam 💚 ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3947390/...

Attention everyone, 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗼! 🥳🎊 A focus on words & letters (because, you know... we're linguists), clean lines and our famous round shape in the middle to evoke our original Void... What do you think? 💫 Logo made by our one & only @mittovac.bsky.social 🤍

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.