Company Profile

8-4 is a video game localization company based in Shibuya, Tokyo. When we’re not lovingly translating your favorite RPG or junior-high ballet trainer/dating sim, we enjoy hunting monsters, recording podcasts, and making our interns perform live re-enactments of scenes from Chaos Wars.

Name: 8-4, Ltd.
Established: Oct. 5, 2005

Objectives:

• To set the bar for quality in Japanese-to-English (and English-to-Japanese!) video game localization
• To assist game creators in all aspects of successfully bringing their games to the Western market
• To bridge the gap between the Japanese and Western game industries (gamers, game creators, developers and publishers, etc.)
• To someday have 1% as many Twitter followers as Lady Gaga

Primary Services:

• Japanese-to-English Translation and Localization
• Voiceover Production
• Gameplay/Story/Design Doc Consulting
• J-to-E and E-to-J Interpretation
• Editorial Content and Coordination
• Event Planning and Coordination

Clients:

• 1UP.com
• Bandai Namco Games
• Capcom
• CMP Media
• Grasshopper Manufacture
• Koei Tecmo
• Kojima Productions
• Konami Corporation
• Level-5
• Nintendo
• Sega
• Sony Computer Entertainment
• Square Enix
• Ubisoft
• XSEED Games