Video Game Localization Analysis

1.6. Definition of Key Terms
1.6.1. Game Localization
According to Mangiron (2009), the term “games localization” is used as an analogy to software localization, due to the fact that the translation of the game requires to adapt to the local standards of the target culture and has to be integrated within the game software.

1.6.2. Localization
Scholars who study in the field of the translation of video games do not just talk about translation itself, they also link it to the term localization. In association with video games, although many definitions of the term “localization” are not completely acceptable, there are some definitions that do explain the term properly. As a result, this term can be obviously defined: Bernal-Merino defines

Video Game
For as much as the subject of this thesis is the translation of video games, an explicit definition of the term video game is necessary. Meanwhile, as Bernal-Merino (2014) assigned, this is not as simple to attain as it might seem, since most existing definitions are either very extensive and ambiguous, or too limited. In his recent study, Bernal-Merino suggests a definition which he expresses to be “tighter and more functional”. He suggests the following definition of the term: “A video game is a multimedia interactive form of entertainment for one or more individuals, powered by computer hardware and software, controlled by a peripheral (a control pad, a keyboard, a mouse, a joystick, a game pad, a motion controller, a steering wheel, a video camera, etc.), and displayed on some kind of screen (a television set, an LCD or plasma monitor, or a portable display). They can be used as entertainment or as part of a serious educational or training programme (they are sometimes referred to as ‘edutainment’ or ‘serious games’), with the advantage that they are fully independent computer applications offering detailed feedback to players in terms of their performance (through sound, animations, videos, or written reports) with regards to the activities for which they have been programmed without any external supervision. Thematically, they can portray any topic, activity, or parallel universe which the human imagination is able to conjure up and, although it is true

Limitations of the Study
As far as the topic of this thesis is the translation of video games, the researcher needed to use some video games that were localized in Persian. At first, the researcher chose a comprehensive video game which was famous among Iranian gamers as Grand Thief Auto V, but in practice, it revealed that the project of the translation of this video game was failed, as the result only the translation of the first chapter of this game was available. Moreover, because the researcher was going to work on the subtitles of games. There were some difficulties in selecting the appropriate and localized games.

1.8. Organization of the