Kotaku Asks_ Video Game Localization Editor Mark MacDonald [Q&A Over]

Published on January 01, 0001 by Chef Mia

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it took to get Fire Emblem: Awakening to U.S. shores? u31 game เข้าสู่ระบบ Today’s a good day to get answers. Welcome to Kotaku Asks, a weekly feature where we invite guests from the world of gaming to come answer burning questions from Kotaku readers. (If you think you’d be a good guest or have any requests for future guests, e-mail me.)(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Today we’ve got Mark MacDonald, executive director at the Tokyo-based localization house 8-4. For over a decade now, u31 เครดิตฟรี 188 MacDonald and crew have been translating and localizing Japanese games to English—you might have seen their work in the aforementioned Fire Emblem and Metal Gear or you might have

played it in Dragon’s Dogma, Tales of Xillia, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, andmany other games. They also localize English games for Japanese audiences and run a fun podcast called 8-4 Play Mark will be answering questions for an hour or two starting at 9am Eastern. Ask anything you’d like. UPDATE: Q&A’s over—thanks to

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