Lionbridge Samurai™ wins “Best Overall Use of AI in Games”
Lionbridge receives AI Breakthrough rating for third consecutive year for game-specific AI localization platform
— Tugdual Delisle, Managing Director, Lionbridge Games
WALTHAM, Mass., June 25, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Lionbridge Games, the world’s leading global provider of game localization, audio, testing, and player experience services, today announced that Lionbridge Samurai™, its AI-driven localization platform, has been recognized by AI Breakthrough with the 9th Annual AI Breakthrough Awards Program announced that it has been selected as the winner of the “Best Overall Use” award. A leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global artificial intelligence market. This award recognizes Samurai as the first production-ready, gaming-focused, AI-driven localization solution that eliminates the trade-off between innovation and reliability.
Game localization is at the intersection of creative storytelling, technical complexity, and high-stakes player expectations. Most general-purpose AI translation tools have a hard time handling this combination. Generic LLMs often miss nuances in character voices, cultural references, and platform constraints, resulting in errors that require costly manual fixes before a title can ship. Samurai was built specifically for this context. This puts linguistic and cultural expertise at the center of game-specific AI workflows, allowing studios to take advantage of AI’s speed and efficiency without compromising the quality control demanded by loyal player communities. From a customer perspective, Samurai functions as a familiar translation, editing, and proofreading (TEP) business, with the benefits of AI applied behind the scenes through a configuration of experts tailored to each specific intellectual property.
“Game developers are under tremendous pressure to ship globally without sacrificing the experience players expect,” said Tugdual Delisle, Managing Director of Lionbridge Games. “Samurai was built to alleviate that pressure by significantly augmenting human expertise with the speed of AI and delivering the uncompromising quality control required for great games. This recognition confirms what our customers are already telling us: gaming-specific solutions make all the difference.”
The basis of the workflow is a structured language quality assessment framework that follows the principles of multidimensional quality indicators. This approach captures AI and human quality in the same environment and feeds it into a closed-loop system that monitors delivery against TEP-equivalent thresholds and adjusts the configuration of live service content updates. Since its launch, Samurai has delivered 26 million target words across 42 game titles and operates 55 language pairs for 29 active customers.
Steve Johansson, Managing Director of AI Breakthrough, said: “Lionbridge Samurai impressed us with the care and craftsmanship behind its design, and the deep expertise with which the team tackled difficult problems.” “We are proud that Lionbridge Games has been recognized as a winner for Best Overall Use of AI in Games of 2026.”
This achievement marks the third consecutive year that Lionbridge has been recognized by the AI Breakthrough Awards program for industry-defining AI leadership. Lionbridge was awarded “AI Model Verification Solution of the Year” in 2025 for Aurora AI Studio™ and “Best Machine Translation Solution” in 2024 for Smart MT™.
About the Lionbridge game
Lionbridge Games delivers the gaming experience players want. Our network of passionate and experienced global gamers, combined with our award-winning AI-powered globalization solutions, enables every aspect of gaming across languages, cultures, and platforms. From concept to launch and beyond, we help developers and publishers break down cultural barriers and engage players everywhere with localization, audio, testing, player experiences, and multimedia services. With offices around the world, our sun-following approach allows the Lionbridge Games team to take projects wherever they are, in markets, within cultures, and around the clock. For more information, please visit games.lionbridge.com.
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