Tag: video game localization

Diego Perez

Diego Perez

"As I tread the uncertain path of video game localization, the nomination to MultiLingual is both reassuring and encouraging."

Kate Edwards

With products, entertainment, and services reaching more customers and audiences around the world each year, lives are becoming just a little more similar. People half a world away may be consuming the same movies, games, books, music, and more — albeit with a few key differences.

Video game revenue set to increase in MENA, game localization boom projected

Experts expect the combined revenue of video game markets in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to increase nearly twofold — from $1.76 billion in 2021 to $3.14 in 2025 — in the next three years. That’s likely to be big news for professionals working in the localization industry, especially given Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s policies encouraging game development and localization.

Machine Translation for Games

Social Quantum is ranked among the top ten biggest game publishers in Russia and Eastern Europe. Mikhail Gorbunov, head of localization, shared his insights on the company’s MT initiative.