September 10th, 2008

To appeal to hard-of-hearing, Ubisoft will add subtitles to its games

Well then, kudos to Ubisoft. The French publisher will now add subtitles to all of its internally developed in order to make them more accessible to the hearing impaired. Games like Far Cry 2 and Prince of Persia will be the first to benefit from Ubisoft’s newfound magnanimity. And that’s all she wrote. → Read More

April 23rd, 2007

CrunchGear Week in Review: Evening Entertainment Edition

The Life Acquatic: Swimming with Sound Subtitling Glasses Put the Text Where It Belongs Plasma Lift: Hey Honey! What TV? Wine That Loves: No More Guessing What Wine Goes With What Food Fitness by Crunchgear 2007 → Read More

April 21st, 2007

Subtitling Glasses Put the Text Where It Belongs

I prefer watching imported movies in their native language with subtitles. It would suck to give a passionate performance only to have some hack voice actor dubbed over your lines, don’t you think? Subtitles on the screen, though, are distracting. I like the idea behind the subtitle glasses. Using a Universal Soldier-esque optics, the subtitle feed from your TV or DVD player is projected… → Read More