Miguel A. Bernal-Merino: Translation and localisation in video games: making entertainment software global

摘要

Translation and Localisation in Video Games is a monograph aimed at scholars, researchers and students in the field of translation studies who wish to specialize in this revenue-generating type of entertainment software. Existing localisation practitioners and video game publishers should also benefit from this book to better understand the cultural issues that are at stake when going global. As the subtitle, Making Entertainment Software Global suggests, the book focuses on the translation and localisation work that is required to adapt video games to other cultures and locales. Even though the video games industry is one of the fastest growing segments of the entertainment industry, it has received little academic or industrial focus apart from the recent work of O'Hagan and Mangiron (2013) and Chandler and Deming (2011).