Published On - May 4, 2018
Video Game Localisation: 5 Reasons It’s Still Necessary
Game localisation is the process of translating and adapting a video game to reach new markets. In a multilingual world where almost everyone knows a little bit of English and Google Translate is omnipresent, is video game localisation still necessary? In a word, yes. And here are five reasons why...
Published On - January 19, 2018
Essential Translation Apps you Need for Travelling
You’d love to see the world, but fear holds you back. You’re afraid of being isolated in a foreign country, unable to speak the language. How are you going to communicate? Charades? Well, stop worrying, and book those tickets! Here are 15 futuristic translation apps and devices for travellers in...
Published On - July 12, 2017
Translation in Gaming
Video games have come a long way in the past 30 years. The cinematic masterpieces offered today bear little resemblance to the pixelated classics that so many of us remember fondly from our childhood. Gaming has become a huge global industry. There are believed to be up to 2.6 billion gamers in the ...
Published On - April 12, 2017
8 Hilariously Bad Video Game Translations
Those of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s remember when video games were the new hotness. Everyone wanted an NES or a Sega Genesis, and we were all so enthralled with the magic of pressing buttons that nobody even cared how bad the dialogue was. And often, it was bad. Many games […]...
Published On - August 3, 2016
The Language of Pokémon Go
It’s official: Pokémon Go has taken the world by storm. A week after release, it had more active users than Twitter and more engagement than Facebook. Players are walking off cliffs and walking into traffic. Those of us who don’t play are thoroughly confused, by both our fri...
Published On - June 30, 2012
A Translation App for the Olympics
As the 2012 Summer Olympics kick off and London prepares for the onslaught of foreign visitors, a new iPhone app is being released to make it easier for all of those people to communicate. The app, called VoiceTra4U-M, works for both telephone conversations and face-to-face conversations in 13 diffe...
Published On - April 19, 2012
Microsoft App Adds Translation Subtitles
Microsoft just released an updated version of its translation app for Windows phones, and it comes equipped with nifty new features. As described on the Bing blog, the augmented reality option sounds especially cool: “With the Translator App for Windows Phone you can now translate printe...
Published On - January 29, 2012
Father Builds Inuit Video Game
When it comes to protecting threatened languages, technology can be a double-edged sword. It can serve to discourage young people from speaking the language of their parents and grandparents, or it can provide tools to help them learn it and space for them to practice it. Here’s one especially...
Published On - June 24, 2011
Learning Language With a Game
Have you always dreamed of learning a new language? Make a game of it! That’s the idea behind Memrise, a new language learning website that focuses on building your foreign language vocabulary with social games, quizzes and mnemonic devices. To help you learn new words more quickly, Memrise in...