The objective of this book is to introduce the specialized translation sub-domain known as
“game localization”(Chandler 2005) within the more established domain of localization. In …

Immersive media such as virtual reality or 360º content is increasingly present in our society.
However, immersive content is not always accessible to all, and research is needed on how …

Game localisation is an emerging field in Translation Studies that initially began attracting
attention in the late 1990s, when the first studies analysing this new translation phenomenon …

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 …

What happened when Sesame Street and Big Brother were adapted for African audiences?
Or when video games Final Fantasy and Assassins' Creed were localized for the Spanish …

This book explores the impact of a video game's degree of realism or fictionality on its
linguistic dimensions, investigating the challenges and strategies for translating realia and …

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 …

From watching a subtitled TV series to learning the lyrics of a popular song in a foreign
language, media act as a mirror reflecting global multilingual realities. And yet, it is not …

Subtitling practices in game localisation remain, to date, largely unexplored, and the existing
standards as widely applied to subtitling for TV, DVD and cinema have not been adopted by …

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 …