Liz Bushouse

A Hallloween-themed drawing of a ghost rabbit with a black bow necktie, fall leaves swirling around in a circle of scratchy darkness. The text reads "happy hauntings".

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#art #halloween #fallart #ghosts

okay, update: i have had this question answered, and I am now looking to speak to game QA testers ON the record about the weirdest, silliest-sounding things they've had to do to make sure games work. the wackier the better. happy to keep folks anon if they prefer. DMs open, email/Signal in bio

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

In the latest episode of Tokyo Game Life, localizer Stephen Meyerink joins to dig into everything amazing about Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles! And I take you inside the vibrant Sega Store Tokyo!

Find Tokyo Game Life wherever you get podcasts: tokyogamelife.com/episode/fina...

The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)

Final Fantasy XII vets talk game localization - GameSpot PAX 2009: Former Square Enix localizers Alexander Smith and Joseph Reeder present the challenges faced when translating Japanese dialogue.

This is super old, but I attended PAX 2009 and saw this localization panel (this article describes parts of it). As far as I can tell, no video of the panel exists, but I remember really great insight on not just FFXII but also FFX and Phoenix Wright. Does anyone know if anybody filmed it at all?

Five Things I Recently Learned About Japanese: Episode 9 Did you know that I don’t know everything there is to know about Japanese? I know, I’m surprised too. They actually let people get PhDs without checking if they know everything there is…

New blog post! Five more things I recently learned about Japanese. It's always embarrassing to admit that I don't know some things about Japanese... but I'm not! Just that I DIDNT know things about Japanese! But now I do! And you can too! Click below!

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Localize Video Games Like a Pro: Voice Over Edition Learn about voice overs when localizing video games from recording studios, budgets, scripts, and more!

The Voice Over Edition of my Localize Video Games Like a Pro is now live on Udemy!! Please go check it out, and use the coupon code below to get $10 off from now until 11/29/2025!

CODE: HAPPYHALLOWEEN2025

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Dagger and Zidane from Final Fantasy IX, on a small boat in a cove along Madain Sari. Dagger, seated, looks up at Zidane, who is contemplating with his arms crossed as he looks skyward.

15. #FFIX25FanArt

Aaaah! These are adorable!!! I love the bomb especially. It's perfect.

if you needed a good reason to disable and not use Gemini, prompt injection is a new favorite tactic for hackers:
arstechnica.com/security/202...

Saw a tumblr post saying AI is turned on again in a hidden Google Drive menu, but its not a menu you can find on mobile; its only desktop. anyhoo. here it is with a picture and clearer directions

Google Drive > MyDrive > (Gear Icon top right) Settings > Manage Apps [switch off Gemini here]

LocJam – Art, Politics and Accessibility A game jam from 2025-10-24 to 2025-11-16 hosted by LocJAM. Organized by Université Bourgogne Europe with the technical support of Alain Dellepiane / LocJAM An online game translation marathon focused ...

Aspiring & seasoned translators, assemble!

A new #LocJam is about to begin and we're really excited about its theme: Art, Politics & Accessibility.

An opening conference will go live in 3 hours from now.
We're ready! 🤍💫

itch.io/jam/locjam-apa

Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests Gaming Copilot, rolling out now to Windows 11, adds a new attack surface to Windows.

If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on

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Feature: "This Is Where The Game Truly Begins" - The Secret Weapon Behind Nintendo's Most Iconic Box Art Designer Tim Girvin shares how he levelled up Nintendo's packaging in the '80s & '90s

"This Is Where The Game Truly Begins" - The Secret Weapon Behind Nintendo's Most Iconic Box Art.

Well, heck! Had a project fall through, which is unfortunately one of the many risks of freelancing, so my schedule for the rest of the year is pretty wide open if anyone has leads for localization/copy editing gigs. 11+ years of professional experience over many dozens of projects! I can do It All

Examining Twilight Princess’ Biggest Mistranslation The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is one of my favourite entries in the franchise, not least for its charming English translation. Unfortunately, it’s ill-famed amongst the series’…

This month, I looked at one of the most infamous mistranslations in Zelda history. In comparing the English translation with the original Japanese script, I hoped to uncover what may have led to this unfortunate error and how it might have been avoided.

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Oh my gosh, I think you're right! Looking at the credits on mobygames, the only one that lists English VO is Symphonia (GC) and a quick check of the credits sequence on youtube shows they're not actually in there. I should've been paying more attention to that...

"over 70% of Tales sales are overseas"
And yet they consistently fail to credit the localizers who make those overseas sales possible. #TranslatorsintheCredits

(For more info, see this post: bsky.app/profile/lizb...)

"over 70% of Tales sales are overseas"
And yet they consistently fail to credit the localizers who make those overseas sales possible. #TranslatorsintheCredits

(For more info, see this post: bsky.app/profile/lizb...)

Everyone who worked on a video game needs to be in the credits:

aftermath.site/video-game-cre...

Ridgeline lead 'disappointed' in Battlefield 6 credits A year after EA shuttered Ridgeline Games, Marcus Lehto expressed disappointment about his former teammates being relegated to a "Special Thanks" section.

NOTHING is lost by properly crediting individuals for the exact contributions they made. You list the entire executive suite who never touched a key and yet people who ground on the game for years are regulated to a "and they were also here." It's not hard. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rid...

Avatar whatacartouchebag Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image. 5d Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine. So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do: In the url bar, type in about:config It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue. One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top: browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy. The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

Apologies in advance for those who have to listen to me but on the other hand you may be surprised to discover through this that I really like FFT

🎉🎉🎉 You love to see--er, hear it!

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

It's past midnight on the east coast, which means it's officially Shadow of the Colossus' 20th anniversary. Come join the party.

Localization Let’s Play: Suikoden 1 – Part 24 - Elizabeth Bushouse Before the big battle at Shasarazade, we get a scene featuring a number of members of the Liberation Army, starting with Humphrey and Mathiu.

My Suikoden Localization Let's Play has finally come to an end! ...Mostly. I do plan to put up a tl;dr later that summarizes the topics that were covered, looks at some reviews of the game, and gathers up my own personal thoughts.

植松伸夫さん（作曲家）インタビュー ―ゲーム音楽の礎を築き、新たな章へ | JASRAC 「植松伸夫さん（作曲家）インタビュー ―ゲーム音楽の礎を築き、新たな章へ」について掲載しています。

"When people listen to music, part of the fun is wondering who made it, right? AI doesn't have that. And with performances too, the music that humans weave together is variable, each one is unique. It's those fluctuations and swells that make it so appealing."
100% true of translation too, btw!

Localization Let’s Play: Suikoden 1 – Part 24 - Elizabeth Bushouse Before the big battle at Shasarazade, we get a scene featuring a number of members of the Liberation Army, starting with Humphrey and Mathiu.

My Suikoden Localization Let's Play has finally come to an end! ...Mostly. I do plan to put up a tl;dr later that summarizes the topics that were covered, looks at some reviews of the game, and gathers up my own personal thoughts.

A shot in the dark for design and digital illustration peeps: I'm trying to get in touch with an illustrator named Albert Co to ask some questions about an old project for a book. Anyone happen to know him or someone who might?