HyperDevbox worked with Idea Factory and turned the PSP game Spectral Souls into a smartphone title. They used the same porting prowess to bring the tactical RPG Blazing Souls Accelate to iPhone and Android.

Do you enjoy being thrown into an incredibly complex, difficult game with little or no guidance? Does spending an entire evening leveling grinding sound like an awesome way to spend a Saturday night?

Once I get all of the raw translations, it’s my responsibility to make it read somewhat naturally as well as bring out the intent of any given dialog as opposed to just the meaning of the words.

Greetings and salutations to my adoring public (all 17 of you!) and welcome to another longwinded and meandering journey through the damaged psyche of a localization lackey.

Greetings one and all and welcome to the first of…some…maybe…missives from the dank, dark depths of the localization gulag that spawned the might, the majesty, that is Blazing Souls Accelate.

Idea Factory merged the adventure map and battle map into one giant map.

Remember how we said Gladiator Begins was coming to North America in March? Now we know Aksys got Acquire’s game.