
The Pokémon Company announced late yesterday that it’s banning one of the Pokémon trading card game’s newest cards…
Sometimes you’re in a relationship with someone. Sometimes that someone decides to give you a note written in…
Do you pronounce it "Roof" or "Ruf?" "Water" or "Wuhter?" Are little river shellfish called "crawfish" or "crayfish"…

Star Wars has been translated and dubbed into dozens of languages, but recently it became available in one you…
I can pinpoint the exact line that finally broke me.
It's like clockwork; Moments after popping open any game that has a mature rating, my 10-year-old son seems to…
In today's episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Korio8 wonders if anyone else prefers subtitles in their video…
Like waves crashing against a cliff face, video games are slowly eating away at the foundations of the English…
Language recognition is not a new concept to video games - the first text adventures had to understand commands…
L.B. Jeffries has a nice essay up on the idea of 'games as languages' — a combination of coercing players to take…
The issue of created languages is hardy new (cf Esperanto), but I've not seen a lengthy discussion of created…
In an effort to make learning Chinese less painful (and ostensibly to capitalize on the 'MMO as language learning…