Abstract:This article investigates the role of localization in the representation of different gender and sexuality
profiles in video games. Using Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology as a methodological framework, it analyzes the ideological and
cultural limitations that restrict the rewriting of minority sexualities and genders when the original versions are transferred to
other languages. The article begins by considering the generative capacities of translatio… Show more
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