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Subs or Dubs? Which Does Japan Prefer For Western Games

By Spencer . February 22, 2010 . 12:56pm

From April 2007 to December 2009, Spike has been polling website surfers and people who sent in survey cards to get an answer.

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Game Localization Summit At GDC 2010 To Focus On Localization Management

By Ishaan . February 18, 2010 . 8:33am

The GLS at this year’s GDC will focus on the technical and managerial aspects of game localization, such as planning, minimizing bugs and maximizing return on investment.

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Soul Bubbles Gets A Japanese Makeover

By Spencer . May 11, 2009 . 10:50am

Interchannel is bringing the charming bubble blowing game, Soul Bubbles, to Japan under the name Awatama (Bubble Bullet). But, something looks well… different. In this version the shaman looks like an anime fairy with purple hair.

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Elite Beat Agents bound for Korea, a slim chance for K-Pop?

By Spencer . August 6, 2007 . 12:35pm

Watching what Nintendo is doing in Korea has always been rather interesting to me. Unlike other companies that shovel games to the market ripe with…

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Looking at localization in Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions

By Spencer . July 14, 2007 . 9:44pm

Got the pleasure of checking out the USA/Europe build of Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions and I’m glad to say it’s…

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Wario Ware Touched and the tale of worldwide localization

By Spencer . June 20, 2007 . 1:43pm

Nintendo officially released the Nintendo DS in South Korea earlier this year and they have been rapidly localizing games Hangul. Wario Ware Touched, better known…

Post 4920

The many, many languages of Blue Dragon

By Spencer . June 18, 2007 . 2:03pm

Last week I had a meeting with Microsoft where I got a chance to check out the North American version of Blue Dragon and…

Post 4882

Hi, Raw Danger

By Spencer . June 17, 2007 . 1:51pm

Agetec quietly released the sequel to Disaster Report (aka Zettaizetsumei Toshi 2) in stores last week under a much more western friendly name, Raw Danger.…

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Behind Squaresoft’s localization curtain

By Spencer . May 25, 2007 . 10:54am

Jerisaka at Square-Haven must have ninja like skills. Somehow he manages to track down people from Square’s localization history. Previously he wrote up an interview…

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Semi-English version of Blue Dragon out in stores

By Spencer . May 22, 2007 . 11:30am

Most of the English speaking world is waiting for Microsoft to roll out Blue Dragon this August, but in Asia there is an English version…

Post 4176

Operation Darkness: the 360’s military strategy RPG

By Spencer . April 30, 2007 . 7:41am

After a period of silence and a delay to 2007, Success Corp released a new trailer for Operation Darkness. Unlike most strategy RPGs, which…

Post 3747

Unearthed NES RPG: Dragon Wars

By Spencer . March 28, 2007 . 2:25pm

Virtual console options are slim in America this week, only Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire is released. Things are a little…

Post 3634

Exit 2 getting localized

By Spencer . March 20, 2007 . 7:49am

Ubisoft took a risk when they localized the quirky puzzle game Exit. It didn’t really pay off for them since Exit was largely ignored, despite…

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Front Mission 1st and the semi state of localization

By Spencer . March 16, 2007 . 4:15pm

 
Later this month Square-Enix is releasing Front Mission 1st, a remake of the SNES game with touch screen control and a tie in with…

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