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Game localization on the radio
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May 25, 2010
I took a little break the other day from a rather large MMO project I am working on and decided to do some dishes. I turned on the radio and got to work. To my surprise, I heard the words “video game localization.” It was CBC host...
Saving trees and more
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May 10, 2010
1. Ubisoft saves trees, scraps manuals
(cnet.com, Josh Lownsohn)
Ubisoft is just one of many game publishers to only make digital manuals available for the players. I say, good riddance. I still need to localize it into German. Especially good...
Führer leaves WoW
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February 3, 2010
If there were an award for the best continuous localization for an MMO, World of Warcraft would get it. While others release games without even the tutorial and tool tips localized (I am not going to point fingers, don’t want to suffer...
NoScript for Opera, pretty please
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February 1, 2010
Sometimes, proprietary is good.
I have been using Firefox now as my primary browser since September of last year, and I was quite happy with it. It crashes more often than Opera and doesn’t come with everything I need (a few addons will...
iPad makes non-news and more
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January 28, 2010
1. No mention of WoW on the Apple iPad
(wow.com, Adam Holisky)
No need to read this article, I just mention it here to demonstrate how huge the iPad is. It even makes non-news. “And many of you began writing into us as soon as the iPad...
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