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Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes Gets Localized

AlexGherzo | Apr 22, 2024 | 0

Do you want to see localization in action? There’s been a lot of talk lately about the practice, which should be simply translating a game from a foreign language into English but actually involves making it more in line with American culture – or what the localizers want American culture to be....

The Pokémon Company Responds to Palworld

AlexGherzo | Jan 25, 2024 | 0

Who’d have thought the drama surrounding a pseudo-Pokémon video game would be this pronounced? Over the past few days, Palworld, an indie video game from Japanese studio Pocketpair, has become a phenomenon, selling over eight million copies in under six days and being the most-played game on Ste...

PETA Wants a Vegan Guide to Palworld

AlexGherzo | Jan 24, 2024 | 0

Once something becomes popular, it doesn’t take wrong for the crazies to complain about it. Right now, the Japanese indie video game Palworld is taking the gaming world by storm, selling over seven million copies in five days and being the most-played game on Steam at the moment. Now, PETA – th...

New “Pokémon with Guns” Game Palworld is a Hit

AlexGherzo | Jan 23, 2024 | 0

Sometimes, it’s the simplest concepts that prove the most popular. Over the past few days, the latest example of this is “Pokémon with guns.” That phrase is being used to describe Palworld, a new action survival video game from Japanese game developer Pocketpair. Palworld drops you into an o...

REVIEW: The Boy and the Heron (2023)

virginiakublawi | Dec 11, 2023 | 0

I wish I could say I’ve followed Studio Ghibli for decades. But unlike Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks, I was unfamiliar with the Japanese studio until I was a young adult. Over the last decade or so, I’ve watched all of their movies at least once and some several times. But The Boy and t...

Miyazaki Not Retiring After All?

virginiakublawi | Sep 8, 2023 | 0

At the Toronto International Film Festival, Studio Ghibli Vice President Junichi Nishioka indicated that famed director Hayao Miyazaki might not retire after The Boy and the Heron, as previously reported. Check out Nishioka’s translated statement here: “Other people say that this might ...