You can outsource anything these days.

Babel, an outsourcing specialist, has set its sights on the exciting world of commercial online games.

Outsourcing specialist Babel Media has announced its intention to expand its existing range of services to take in massively multiplayer games as well.

Led by Anthony McGaw, an MMO specialist team will now be available for QA testing, translation, audio and print services, and is already working on "a number of MMO projects from the USA, South East Asia and Europe, some running until 2009," a company statement said.

"You need scale, global delivery and flexibility to provide a credible service for MMOs," said McGaw. "You need large scale functionality testing, and online beta capability, the resources to translate 2-3 million word scripts, cast and record multiple actors and then carry out localization QA on the result - this is our core business."

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