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Game over: The things you just don’t translate
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May 12, 2012
I have been doing this for a while now (and by “this”, I mean the localization of video games). So I have my quirks and idiosyncrasies just like anyone who has been working in the same environment for ten years. One of them becomes...
Bears, the Pope and amateur game translators
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October 11, 2011
It’s kind of nice to see the industry grow up. I have been localizing video games for more than five years, a German language professional for almost 20 and a gamer for about 30 years. Our approach to localizing has changed quite a bit...
Where have all the zombies gone?
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May 4, 2011
When you work in video game localization, you should play a game once in a while, or so I hear. So the beautiful wife and I picked up Resident Evil 5 (not the German version though) and I exchanged my translating tools with the PS3 controller....
Firefox 4: Time for a spring-cleaning
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March 23, 2011
Firefox 4 just came out and I might not be the only translator cursing the sudden unavailability of certain addons or extensions. Well, it is a time for a good spring-cleaning anyway, so let’s start with the cluttered right-click...
Play to stay in touch
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January 18, 2011
So how do you stay in touch with your mother tongue and culture as a translator living abroad? The answer comes easy to me: I play MMOs!
I do all the other things my unfortunate colleagues do, those who don’t localize video games but...
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