I’m at GDC in San Francisco this week. I love GDC. Even before the demise of E3 in 2006, I always preferred GDC. It was at GDC that I bumped into Bill Gates (2001, during the launch of Xbox), as well as stop Steve Jackson in his tracks for a twenty minute conversation about...
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Next week, I will be in San Francisco for the Game Designers’ Conference. The first day will be devoted entirely to localization issues. I will have a lengthy report. Until then, here are a few more reports from around the world. HUNGARY: In the city where I live over 1000 people lost their job...
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Last week, the world was abuzz when Hillary Clinton, the new US Secretary of State, presented her Russian counterpart with a Reset Button that was famously mis-translated. Instead of reset, the word used means to Overload or Overcharge. What an outrage! Americans don’t understand other languages! We’ve known this for years! What’s your (or,...
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This morning, my new professional blog was published and linked in the New York Times. We’ve been posting stories of the economic crisis from some of our translators and other contractors. The morning, Freakonomics decided it was a story worth reporting. We’ll try to post more stories later this week. And I do hope...
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More notes from outside of the US on the economic crisis. ITALY (Milan): “My sister’s boyfriend, who graduated in IT last year, finally found a job 4 months ago. Unfortunately, despite what they initially promised him, they’ve already reduced his contract from one year to 6 months. Also, the Northern part of Italy has...
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I’ve spent years traveling the world, living in one country or another for long periods. I’ve been wondering, just how big an impact the current economic crisis has on real people everywhere. Since I’m in daily contact with people around the world running Apogee Communications, I thought I’d ask them. Here are some of...
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