TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today
announced ALPHA CRC as their
newest member.
Founded in 1987 ALPHA CRC are an end to end games globalization company
which provides localization/translation/audio visual services/QA/testing for
games publishers of all types and for all platforms. They have completed the
localization on over 2000 titles and work with 12 of the top 20 games
publishers.
One of the best Globalization companies in the world – and now in their
25th year- Alpha CRC is privately owned and they are passionate about their
GL10N service role. Alpha specializes in Globalization for Games and Media,
together with other digital and rich/multimedia products. Alpha also offers a
range of specialist testing services for Platform, Mobile and Games products.
They work with around 2400 associate translators in 68 countries. The company
has 380 full time employees – 18 offices and production in 14 countries.
Services include globalization, localization, translation, functional
and linguistic QA, Machine Translation services, Crowd Sourced translation,
testing, software engineering, DTP, audio, rich media, project management and
specialist globalization consultancy
Paul Mangell, international sales director of ALPHA CRC, explains the
reason why he decided to join TIGA:
“The UK is one of the most exciting games markets in the world. Having
been part of the global games localization industry for over 20 years we have
worked with publishers and developers in the USA, Continental Europe and Asia
on some of the world’s best known games.
We are now very keen to share our expertise and services with the UK
games industry, and joining TIGA will allow us to support its members, and play
our part in what is the most dynamic business sector in Europe.”
Dr. Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO welcomed the organisation to TIGA:
“The UK games development sector is export focused, selling games to a
host of consumers in a variety of countries all over the world. TIGA’s research
shows that 95% of UK games development studios export at least some of their
games. Localisation businesses such as
Alpha CRC have an important role to play in the localisation market, helping UK
games development businesses to achieve their objectives. We welcome Alpha CRC
to TIGA and look forward to working with them.”
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Notes to editors:
TIGA is the trade association representing the UK’s games
industry. The majority of our members are either independent games developers
or in-house publisher owned developers. We also have games publishers,
outsourcing companies, technology businesses and universities amongst our
membership. TIGA won 10 business awards and
was nominated a finalist for 9 other awards during 2010 and 2011. In 2010 TIGA won two business awards including
‘Trade Association of the Year’ from the Trade Association Forum.
In 2011, TIGA
won eight business awards including ‘Trade Association of the Year’ from the
Trade Association Forum, ‘Outstanding Organisation’ from the Chartered
Management Institute and two Global Business Excellence Awards, including
‘Outstanding Marketing Campaign’.
Richard Wilson won the ‘Leadership Award’ from the Trade Association
Forum and the ‘Outstanding Leader’ award from the Chartered Management
Institute. TIGA is an Investors in People organisation.
TIGA's vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games
business.
We focus on three sets of activities: political representation,
generating media coverage and developing services that enhance the
competitiveness of our members. This means that TIGA members are
effectively represented in the corridors of power, their voice is heard in the
media and they receive benefits that make a material difference to their businesses,
including a reduction in costs and improved commercial opportunities.
For further information, please contact Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on:
07875 939 643, or email richard.wilson@tiga.org.