The localised versions of Supreme Commander and Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl are the first two titles that are being localised by New Era Interactive Software.

Localising games from English isn't easy, but this time around i made sure that the meaning from English remains in the Malay version.

It's a give and take situation, it has to be in Malay to prevent grey exports to countries like the U.S., just like in Thailand.

We hope to bring in more localised games and if you like to see more games, then do your best to support: buy localised!

before localising STALKER and Supreme Commander into malay, we at New Era here had considered a lot of what was discussed here.

Dawn of War was a failure because it's a warhammer game, the content had to be in English! the malay translation killed phrases like: For the Emperor! so, it was doomed to failed.

i made sure the translation stayed true to the meaning this time, and phew, was it tough flipping through my dictionary a hundred times over!

many customers like the idea of buying cheaper original games at the expense of language. honestly, with all the games collected, only collects dust. frankly the dust might have covered up the words!

fans who love to collect games in english, are a small market, niche i must say. both localised STALKER and Supreme Commander did fairly well and it hit the right spot with the larger market share: those who want to buy games irregardless of language.

a big thank you to you people!

there are people who spend prudently, thus choosing the most affordable game. i'm sure one day everyone wont have time to play so many games and hence will opt to buy the cheaper ones to make up for the lack of time=money.

we're probably going to localise Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter 2. still negotiating on it but we hope to carry on localising.

Thailand did a great job with localisation and it also took quite a while before it was accepted. hopefully, we can achieve the same in a shorter time frame.

face it, with our exchange rate so high, its unlikely games will be cheap for the next few years so localisation will and might be the only way to go. also, u wont see EA localising their games as they are already locally manufactured for the S.E.A. region, hence a more affordable price of RM 129.90 for C&C3. but still above the RM 100 mark.

a localised porsche?

localised games are still reproduced in the exact quality as the international versions. manual is still in black and white, the boxes are still squishable and cd-keys still work. so if my porsche is going to have a change in language at the expense of price, definitely will consider (if it is still affordable!!!!)

not only that, cars like porsche are for the ultimate collector. games aren't in fact. Transformer toys cost 3 times more than games and most of them aren't even played....

so gentleman my RM one thousand cents, its your call for the games industry.

i hope i can walk into a game store in Malaysia that rivals Singapore and Thailand one day. do you want to do the same?