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JV (from jeux vidéo; pronounced [ʒø video]; transl. video games), whose name is Jeuxvideo.com from 1997 to 2021, also called JVC, is a French website, and also available as an application, specializing in video game since 1997. It is built as an information tool intended for players by a team of editors and notably offers news, files, video ...
The French game developer trade group, known as Association des Producteurs d'Oeuvres Multimedia (APOM, now "Syndicat National du Jeu Video") was founded in 2001 [1] by Eden Studios' Stéphane Baudet, Kalisto's Nicolas Gaume, former cabinet member and author Alain Le Diberder, financier and former journalist Romain Poirot-Lellig and Darkworks' Antoine Villette.
The game takes place 1,000 years after Ankama's previous game, Dofus. [3] A spin-off game, Islands of Wakfu, was released on Xbox Live Arcade on 30 March 2011. An animated television series based on the game began airing in France from 30 October 2008. The series has also spawned various comics, a trading card game and a board game.
Video gaming in France is one of the largest markets in Europe. [1] [2] [3] The French government gives special tax breaks to video game companies. [4]In 2014, the French diplomatic service released a report which calculates the profit generated by the French video game industry at €2.7 billion.
Since the beginning of video game history, video games have been localized. One of the first widely popular video games, Pac-Man was localized from Japanese. The original transliteration of the Japanese title would be "Puck-Man", but the decision was made to change the name when the game was imported to the United States out of fear that the word 'Puck' would be vandalized into an obscenity.
The Japanese video game developer and publisher Square Enix (formerly two companies called Square and Enix prior to 2003) has been translating its games for North America since the late 1980s, and the PAL region and Asia since the late 1990s. It has not always released all of its games in all major regions, and continues to selectively release ...
The Blues Brothers (video game) The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure; Bodycam (video game) Bound by Flame; The Brainies; BROK the InvestiGator; Brotato; Brothers in Arms (2008 video game) Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War; Brothers in Arms: Art of War; Bubble Ghost; Bugs Bunny & Lola Bunny: Operation Carrot Patch; Build-A-Bear Workshop (video ...
A French translation was published in France in 2007 by UbIK, a French company that merged with Edge Entertainment. A Spanish version was published in 2008. An English translation of Anima was published in October 2008 by the American company Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) and is still included in FFG's games catalog.