Brendan Callum writes about his experiences with auto-translation on the online role playing game Final Fantasy XI for chanpon.org. This summer I had the privilege of playing the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Final Fantasy XI. One of the...
When movies are brought between countries, subtitles or dubbed vocals are added - requiring textual translation. When video games are brought between countries, not on the words of the script must be translated, but also the video game commands. Do...
In a post to the video game weblog Game Girl Advance, "game girl advance: East Meets West, With A French Twist," Sanford May begs a comparison: "I think it would be interesting to play through and compare, say, Fatal Frame...
Animation/game franchises continue to lead Japan's cultural exports. Pokemon was an immensely popular card game/video game/TV show/comic book/movie/pillow/snack lunch conglomerate. Then after that died down, Yu-Gi-Oh launched to a warm enough reception abroad, to judge by the number of Yu-Gi-Oh...
It looks like someone put a lot of effort into the design of a samurai-themed live-action role-playing game for a party they had in Inglewood California in spring 2000: Samurai Matsuri: A Live Role-Playing Game by Amy Creamer"....
An upcoming video game based in old Japan looks as though it could be more realistic than Sword of the Samurai. That's a bit of a joke - if you measure realism through graphics, there's no contest. Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition...
