{"title":"Video game localization","authors":"Xiaochun Zhang","doi":"10.4324/9781003221678-27","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":": Video games are products that try to offer new types of experiences and to paratrans-late reality, with the final goal of offering unique experiences that are delivered through every sense of the human body. The public is broader than ever, and electronic entertainment products try to be innovative and reflexive, so they can offer fun play sessions, but also in order to recreate reality and offer food for thought to players, regarding social problems. And, for all of this, localization plays a key role. First of all, due to the importance of paratexts and the need to","PeriodicalId":292335,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003221678-27","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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: Video games are products that try to offer new types of experiences and to paratrans-late reality, with the final goal of offering unique experiences that are delivered through every sense of the human body. The public is broader than ever, and electronic entertainment products try to be innovative and reflexive, so they can offer fun play sessions, but also in order to recreate reality and offer food for thought to players, regarding social problems. And, for all of this, localization plays a key role. First of all, due to the importance of paratexts and the need to