This was a collaboration with Context Heroes (contextheroes. com), who coordinated the full 7-language effort. Vojtech Schubert runs a tight ship -- the kind of setup where every translator has what they need before they start. The result is in the graphic. The full story is here: https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/03/18/how-we-localized-a-million-wishlist-game-into-japanese-and-what-game-devs-can-learn-from-it/ #GameLocalization #Japanese #Everwind #GameDev #CJK #Localization
How We Localized a Million-Wishlist Game Into Japanese (And What Game Devs Can Learn From It) – Loekalization Blog

Source: Lode Lauwaert & Ann-Katrien Oimann, "Moral Responsibility and Autonomous Technologies", in The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press), p. 108. Credit: Deborah do Carmo for raising this issue and pursuing it with professionalism despite the silence. #GameLocalization #Translation #AI #CambridgeUniversityPress #AcademicIntegrity #Localization
And then the AI contradicted itself in the final sentence, still mentioning "the Yamano Gakki building in the Ginza district of Tokyo" as "the most expensive location in the Netherlands. " This isn't a translation error. This is an AI rewriting reality. Source: Japanese government official land price announcement (March 17, 2026), translated by Mistral. #GameLocalization #AI #Translation #Japanese #Dutch #Localization #Hallucination #CJK #GameDev
Source: Ulatus, "2026 Japanese-to-English AI Translator Shootout: GPT-4o vs DeepL vs Claude on Keigo, Subtext, and Brand Voice," January 2026 #GameLocalization #Japanese #Localization #AI #Keigo #GameDev #CJK #Translation
No memory of place. Game developers solved persistent world state in 1972. Even if it did produce something playable, what would you localize? No script, no UI strings, no narrative. Incoherent after 60 seconds. Games will continue to be made by people, with better tools. And those games will still need localization. Sources: GamesIndustry. biz (Lewis Packwood), GameFile, Rafael Brown #GameDev #GDC2026 #Localization #GameLocalization
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🌟 I started out as a general translator, working 4 years in technical translation — it paid the bills, but something was missing. I always knew I wanted to translate games, though it felt far off.

After exploring other paths, little signs kept pointing me back: “This is your passion.” Now, I’m fully diving into video game localization (EN ↔ PT-PT), finally aligning my work with what truly excites me. 🎮
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Naughty Dog تقترب من دعم العربية في لعبتها المرتقبة Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet
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تتجه أنظار عشاق ألعاب الأكشن والسرد القصصي العميق في الفترة الحالية نحو المشروع الجديد الضخم من فريق التطوير Naughty Dog، والذي يحمل الاسم الرسمي Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet، وهي
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