by Daniela Costa A couple of months ago, the Audiovisual Division launched a series of Instagram Lives where we chat with talented audiovisual translators. September: The Founding of the ATA AVD with Deborah Wexler, Ana Lis Salotti, Ana Gabriela Gonzalez Meade, and Mara Campbell We kicked-off on September 26 with an interview with the founders […]
ATA 61 Recap: Localizing Video Games: The Ins and Outs
by Carme Mangiron Over four decades, the video game industry has become a world-wide phenomenon which generated 152.1 billion dollars in 2019 and is expected to continue growing (Newzoo, 2019). In fact, the video game industry has even thrived during the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (The Washington Post, 2020), as people around […]
Forced Narratives? Forced Audiences!
By Mara Campbell and Sebastián Arias Sometimes it takes us ages to realize that we have been doing something inefficiently for a long time and nobody said a thing (probably because they didn’t notice). Generally, we can’t even establish the exact moment it started happening or who began doing it differently. My colleague and co-author […]
