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From God of War (2018). Think of how many opportunities they had to fix the credits to include actual people over the last 8 years. And yet, to this day, translators are still not included. #TranslatorsInTheCredits

A picture of the Nioh 3 credits. Koei Tecmo's localization staff is mentioned, but none of the actual translators are credited.

Nioh 3, developed by Koei Tecmo and localized in 11 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. A few members of Localization staff are included in the LQA credits, but none of the actual translators are credited. Source: GamersPrey

While I'm here, Paranormasight also does not credit its localizers, only listing the in-house localization producers/directors/project managers, then blanket crediting Digital Hearts at the end as "production cooperation". #TranslatorsintheCredits
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Cozy Caravan (@cozycaravangame.bsky.social), developed by 5 Lives Studios and localized in 13 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. Only the localization agency, 2M Language Services, is credited.

Thank you for the additional evidence! This is indeed the same boilerplate Sony has used on most of their titles in the past.

Lego Horizon Adventures, developed by Guerrilla and Sony, and translated into 25 languages does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits.

Game by Semyon Itmaniuk Maxim Begunov Aleksandr Khozeev Ilia Burdin Dmitriy Romanov Konstantin Auerbakh Innata Vita Ivan Vodoleev Yelisei Permiakou

In The King is Watching, developed by Hypnohead and published by @tinybuildgames.bsky.social, translators are NOT in the credits. The game is available in 10 languages including English.
#TranslatorsInTheCredits

Confidential Killings, developed by Lorenzo Boni / @branegames.bsky.social, published by #Surefire.Games and localized in 6 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. Only the loc agency, Allcorrect, is credited.
Screenshot from: Video Game Credits on YouTube

Screenshot from the credits with a dark background and white letters of Big Hops that lists several people in this order: Ryan Manning, programming Conrad Wilson, programming Kieran Boyce Quality Assurance Localization 1Stop Translations Special Thanks Mon Tom Huffman William Chyr Nathan Vella Max Hudetz Greag Wohlwend John Pantaleon Gabrielle, the surname is cut out.

Big Hops, developed by @luckshotgames.com and localized in 4 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits.
Only the localization agency, 1Stop Translation, is credited.

DuneCrawl, developed by Alientrap (@alientrap.bsky.social) and localized in 7 languages, only credits their Chinese translator. Screenshot taken from the Video Game Credits YT channel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUmS...) #TranslatorsInTheCredits

Tales of (Missing) Credits - Elizabeth Bushouse Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Tales of series! This is one of my all-time favorite RPG series, and I'm so glad it's still going after all of these

Happy 30th anniversary to the Tales series, one of my all-time favorite RPG series! 🎉...I just wish it treated my colleagues with a little more respect. The series actively stopped crediting its English localizers as of 2014, and has almost never credited its FIGS localizers or English voice actors.

Looking at the full credit list (www.mobygames.com/game/245425/...), most of the people in the Contractors category are not even credited under "real" role names, simply "Contractor", "Embark Team" or "Special Thanks".

No mention of voice acting or localization either.

Unless there is another credits sequence I'm unaware of, Tales of Xillia Remastered also fails to credit its English localizers (both past and present), as well as its English voice actors, continuing the trend of Tales games omitting these people in the credits. #TranslatorsintheCredits

Halloween draws near, and you know what's truly scary? Being made as invisible as a ghost by a bunch of corporations, buried under literally everybody else in a credit roll. Such as here in The Quarry (2022), a title localized in 19 languages. And of course, no #TranslatorsInTheCredits... 👻

Thank you for bringing it to our attention. We checked MobyGames for the post and it seems it may not be updated.

Sources for the screenshots:

Hell Is Us: youtu.be/Lq8r2m1y2mQ

Architect Life: youtu.be/43ELndHoEVY

SONOKUNI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=paSM...

Finji's tweet: x.com/CreditsLoc/s...

Screenshot of a Tweet in which Finji, the publishers of Tunic, says: Finji credits every collaborator who has worked on a game, past and present, including convention staff and Discord moderators. In the case of external agencies outside of our control, we credit to the exact specification as provided to us by the entity.

Unfortunately, this is not the exception. In 2021, it didn't provide the names for Inscryption even when pressed (@dmullinsgames.bsky.social)
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Nor in Tunic, in 2022.

In 2024, @corekeepergame.com couldn't credit them. The publisher tried multiple times
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Creenshot of the credits roll for Hell Is Us. Is a black screen and the font is white, it can read from top to bottom: Katoche Font Ivano Pallmentieri Aditional Cinematics Altar Creative Inc. Additional PR Dead Good Media Localization ACE Agency Hell Is Us Babies

Screenshot of the credit's roll for Architect Life: A House Design Simulator. The background is a gradiente from muted blue to white and ins a slightly obscured rectangle we can read n white font from top to bottom: ACE Agency Localisation Partner Google Fonts ASAP Noto Sans

Screenshot from the credit's roll of SONOKUNI, a black screen with a white font in which you can read from top to bottom: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese Audiovisual, Communication & Entertainment Agency. (Which is the long version of ACE Agency)

Hell Is Us by #RogueFactor and published by @nacon.bsky.social does not credit its translators.

Only this year, ACE Agency has failed to provide the names of its contractors in two more games:

Architect Life by Shine group (@nacon.bsky.social)
SONOKUNI by Don Yasa Crew (@kakehashigames.com)

And final update on the matter: Palworld credits now feature 40+ new names across a dozen languages :) #TranslatorsInTheCredits

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Casual reminder that it was shortly after the release of Tales of Xillia that Tales games actively stopped crediting their English localizers. Bonus fact: Did you know that it's basically the only best-selling JRPG series to have this issue?

Video games have a serious crediting problem, but unions can help How are unions working to fix the industry's issue with credits?

How do you solve a problem like miscrediting?

In her latest column, @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social spoke with union members, industry experts, and advocates to learn how collective action can help developers get the recognition they deserve:

This is not the first time EDS Wordland is credited without any individual contributor names:
- Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (‪@simogo.com)
- Skin Deep (@blendogames.bsky.social)
- Wanderstop (@ivyroadgames.bsky.social)
- The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)
All published by Annapurna.

Wheel World by @messhof.bsky.social / @annapurna.com, localized in 11 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. Only the localization agency, EDS Wordland Ltd., is credited.

(LSPs can be skeevy, though: some don't pay their linguists very well, and others don't put their names in the credits.

A lot of translators across our industry (including me!) continue to rally for #TranslatorsInTheCredits -- follow @locincredits.bsky.social !)

Continuing the trend, ISLANDERS: New Shores (@coatsink.com) was also localized by Localize Direct, and doesn't include any #TranslatorsInTheCredits.

Hoy toca ronda doble de créditos, ambos junto a @afresor.bsky.social entre otros.
FBC: Firebreak, como revisora de apoyo.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4, como revisora (y sufridora) principal (a falta de una, me han puesto dos veces).
#TranslatorsInTheCredits

Not only that, they cannot answer a simple question.
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They are also known for ignoring requests related to credits.

Hyper Gunsport brought this issue to their credits:
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Screenshot from the Reignbreaker credits. It's a blank page that reads: Financial controller Sarah Walsh Interim financial controler Steven Coombes Interim business controller segment games Hana Lundberg Localization & QA Altagram Localize Direct

Screenshot from Guns of Fury credits that reads: Programming John Christodoulatos Graphics Lefteris Christodoulatos Music Dominic Ninmark Translations Localize Direct Thank you for playing!

Screenshot from the Ved credits that reads LocalizeDirect Business Development Tim Farvadeev Loc & QA Project Manager Justin Murphy Sergio López Santana Localization Manager Sonya Kryltsova Julia Maydanyuk

Screenshots from Tin Heart's credits, it's ab lack screen with a little hedgehog with a sword on the botton left. It reads: Services Additional QA Globalstep Localizations LocalizeDirect Production babies Iris Weston Production Pets Ichigo

Localize Direct is known for not crediting their contractors as seen in @reignbreaker.bsky.social (2025), Guns of Fury, by @gelatogames.bsky.social, (2025), Ved (2024) and Tin Hearts (2023).