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How Online Game Localization Hides Jokes Across Languages
Playing a game in one language, you see one version of its humor, but a game translated into a dozen languages is really a...
Features editor
Rosamund spent years writing about game culture for print magazines before moving online. She edits Detect Magazine's features and has a soft spot for games that hide their best ideas in plain sight.
Games
Playing a game in one language, you see one version of its humor, but a game translated into a dozen languages is really a...
Games
The loading screen was once dead time, a spinning icon begging for patience.
Games
Part of what makes this desk's work interesting is sorting two kinds of patterns that get talked about as if they were the same...
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Every few months a reader asks us to investigate whether some online community is "legit," usually after finding it either...
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Readers send us tricks more often than they send us almost anything else.
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Somewhere inside a game that shipped a decade ago, there is still a secret nobody has found, a wall that opens with an input...