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Japanese/Chinese/Korean/English/Dutch game localization

Month: December 2024

  • Think You’re Making Smart Decisions? Here’s Why You’re Not

    Think You’re Making Smart Decisions? Here’s Why You’re Not

    When was the last time you read a corporate success story and thought, “This is it! These smiling stock-photo people have nailed it!” If you’re an executive or an acquisition manager, chances are you’ve been charmed by one of these polished pieces of marketing magic. Buzzwords flying off the page, abstract metrics sparkling like fairy…

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  • From Confidential to Controversial: How Phrase is Turning Your Work into AI Freebies

    From Confidential to Controversial: How Phrase is Turning Your Work into AI Freebies

    Oh, Phrase, what a tangled web you’ve spun—quite literally. For a company that promises to “streamline translation processes” with the finesse of a digital ballerina, you’re looking more like a bull in a linguistic china shop. What started as a shiny, tech-savvy dream of making localization smooth and efficient has turned into the plot twist…

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  • From Localize to Loekalize: Excel at Translation

    From Localize to Loekalize: Excel at Translation

    Picture this: you’re a game developer, and your latest masterpiece is a 150,000-word epic with twisting narratives, snappy dialogues, and a healthy dose of sarcastic banter. You’ve spent months crafting this digital wonderland, only to watch your beautiful creation buckle under the weight of poorly synced translations. Enter Loekalization, the unsung hero of the gaming…

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  • Look who’s not tolking

    Look who’s not tolking

    The Dutch government: masters of windmill maintenance, tulip exports, and, apparently, coming up with policies so absurd that even Monty Python would struggle to outdo them. Today’s fiasco? Interpreting services. That’s right, the essential work of interpreters—the people who make sure our courts don’t devolve into international games of “Guess What I Just Said”—has been…

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  • How to Live Like a King and Pay Like a Pauper

    How to Live Like a King and Pay Like a Pauper

    NOTE: THIS BLOG IS CONSTANTLY UPDATED WITH NEW INFORMATION. KEEP COMING BACK FOR MORE INFO. Gameeleon, a company that sounds like it was named by a 12-year-old trying to be edgy, has become infamous in the localization world—not for groundbreaking work but for its spectacular ability to dodge payments, ignore obligations, and craft excuses worthy…

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  • Martial Law in South Korea: Protecting Democracy or Power Grab?

    Martial Law in South Korea: Protecting Democracy or Power Grab?

    South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s decision to declare martial law marks a dramatic escalation in an already polarized political climate. Typically reserved for extreme scenarios like military crises or large-scale internal unrest, this measure has sent shockwaves through both domestic and international spheres. While Yoon defends the move as necessary to protect constitutional order…

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  • China’s C919 Just Taxied Onto Airbus and Boeing’s Turf

    China’s C919 Just Taxied Onto Airbus and Boeing’s Turf

    On December 3, 2024, the C919, China’s homegrown aviation superstar, made its grand commercial debut in Chongqing—or, well, its Chongqing-specific debut. Let’s not confuse this milestone with its actual first commercial flight, which happened back in May 2023. That inaugural journey stole the spotlight back then, so think of this as the C919’s second-act performance…

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  • Deep-Sea Drama: China Grabs, Japan Thinks, and Fish Pray

    Deep-Sea Drama: China Grabs, Japan Thinks, and Fish Pray

    China is gearing up to vacuum the Pacific Ocean floor near Japan’s Minamitori Island like it’s cleaning up after the world’s messiest party. Next summer, a Chinese state-owned enterprise plans to suck up 7,500 tons of manganese nodules in a 20-day deep-sea mining trial. These little potato-shaped lumps aren’t just ocean trash—they’re loaded with rare…

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  • 糠 – Nuka – Rice bran

    糠 – Nuka – Rice bran

    糠 (nuka) is the kanji for when life hands you rice, but you’re the part nobody asked for. Rice husks, people. That’s what we’re dealing with today. Not the fluffy, photogenic grains themselves, but their rejected siblings—the bitter, gritty underdogs of the grain world. The Kardashians have Kim, rice has 糠 (nuka). Welcome to the…

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