External translators hired for Nintendo projects bemoan lack of credit in "almost every big title"

Translators contracted from firms outside of Nintendo have complained about not being credited for their work on high-profile games from the Mario maker, including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Super Mario RPG.
Speaking with Game Developer, anonymous sources who worked for external translator agencies on Nintendo’s projects said they had been left off credits. In addition, sources said they had been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement which prevented them from talking about their work for 10 years.
“I kind of accepted [miscrediting] as ‘part of the business’ but that doesn’t mean it’s fair or right,” one source who worked on Nintendo projects through service providers Localsoft and Keywords told the publication. …

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Battlefield 2042's limited-time Dead Space crossover is now underway

If the absence of any positive Dead Space 2 remake news has been getting you down, there’s at least one new way to get a bit of Necromorph in your life right now, even if it’s probably not quite what fans were hoping for. EA’s sci-fi horror series is the focus of a new Battlefield 2024 limited-time PvE mode, Outbreak, which is available to play now.

Outbreak, described as a “high-intensity survival mode”, pits up to four players against hordes of Augmented Targets (which regrettably look more like slightly fleshy crash test dummies than Necromorphs) as they travel across the Redacted map toward their extraction point.

Starting at the western end, the goal is to pass through eight sectors while facing off against increasingly difficult waves of enemies. Player…

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Elden Ring's "scadutree" is not pronounced the way you think it is

Guess what, Tarnished? We’ve all been saying Elden Ring DLC’s “Scadutree” incorrectly.
According to VaatiVidya’s fascinating video Amazing Secrets in the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, scadu is derived from ancient English and is pronounced “sha-doe” rather than “ska-doo”… which, let’s face it, makes much more sense given the DLC’s subtitle.
Jump to 510s/8m30s on the video below to hear the correct pronunciation for yourself:

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Summer Games Done Quick 2024 raises £1.9m, taking its lifetime charitable total to £40m

Summer Games Done Quick 2024 is over for another year, raising £1.9m ($2.5m) for the charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières.
That brings the speedrunning organiser’s lifetime total to a staggering £40m/$51m across all its events for charities like AbleGamers, Doctors Without Borders, Organisation for Autism Research, Malala Fund, National Women’s Law Center, and Prevent Cancer Foundation.

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Xbox Cloud Gaming will reportedly let players stream any game in their library from November

Microsoft is reportedly set to significantly expand Xbox Cloud Gaming’s capabilities next month, introducing the ability for Xbox players to stream any of their purchased games.

To date, Xbox Cloud Gaming’s streaming features have only been available across a select number of Game Pass titles, but Microsoft has long had ambitions to enable players to stream any game they own. And that feature, The Verge now writes, is nearly here.

Citing “sources familiar with [the company’s] plans”, The Verge says Microsoft will introduce the ability to stream “thousands” of Xbox titles – not just those available via Game Pass – starting in November, as part of a long-running internal initiative known as Project Lapland.

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Original Horizon Zero Dawn removed from Epic Games Store, following remaster announcement

Sony has delisted Horizon Zero Dawn from the Epic Games Store.
The first of Guerrilla’s Horizon games initially arrived on PC back in 2020. However, four years later, it is no longer available to purchase on Epic’s storefront. Rather, the page now states Zero Dawn is “Unavailable”.
At the time of writing, the game’s Steam page is still live.

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Palworld PS5 release finally available in Japan, despite looming Nintendo lawsuit

Palworld is, belatedly, now available in Japan on PlayStation 5.
Palworld first released on PlayStation consoles last month. However, while Pocketpair’s monster-catching survival game debuted on PS5 across 68 countries and regions worldwide, it was not released in Japan at the same time.
A reason for this omission was not given, although it was surmised it was due to the fact Nintendo is suing Pocketpair for patent infringement.

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Humble Choice October bundle features the under-appreciated Jusant

Humble has detailed its October Choice bundle of games, which is headlined by Don’t Nod’s excellent if overlooked Jusant.

The Humble Choice subscription offering provides a monthly set of PC games which members claim to own forever for $12. This month’s line-up comprises:

Jusant
Remnant 2
Persona 5 Strikers
Dome Keeper
Jack Move
Station to Station
Remnant Records
McPixel 3

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Starfield gets big bug fix and improvements patch to accompany Shattered Space DLC

Starfield’s first major story expansion, Shattered Space, is now here, opening up a new, aggressively purple corner of the galaxy for players to explore – and its arrival has been marked with the launch of a big new patch bringing a sweep of fixes to the base game.

Patch-wise, update 1.14.70 is fairly lacking in eye-catching headline additions, although it does promise the likes of performance and stability improvements (always welcome), game-wide lighting changes and enhancements,visual updates for weapon models, improved player head tracking when exiting dialogue, and more. That’s on top of a chunky list of more specific fixes throughout the game, as detailed in Bethesda’s patch notes – and, for those who want to preserve their clicking fingers, at the bottom…

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Listen now to Hans Zimmer's Dragon Age: The Veilguard main theme

Oscar and Grammy award-winning composer Hans Zimmer has released his main theme for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which you can listen to right now just below.

Zimmer, best known for his work on The Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Dark Knight, has composed only a handful of video games throughout his prolific career.

The Veilguard’s score is co-composed by Lorne Balfe, a frequent collaborator of Zimmer’s and the brain behind scores for a slew of films, as well as video games such as Assassin’s Creed 3 and Skylanders series.

A decade on from the launch of Dragon Age: Inquisition, BioWare’s long-awaited follow-up finally arrives on 31st October. To get yourself in the mood, here’s that main theme to listen to now:

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