My name is Tatiana Vrabie, I’m a freelance English-Russian and English-Romanian translator
with a great passion for video games.

Being born in a programmers family at the times there were computing centers, the predecessors
of modern PCs, gamedev and I were making our first steps at once. I grew up on
games like Xonix, Digger, Goonies, Pac-Man, followed by Prince of Persia,
Outrun, Loom, Doom and so on, and all my further life was one way or another connected
to games industry.

I remember myself at the age of 11 playing Zeliard, an early RPG, in English, using a pocket
dictionary in order to understand all the dialogues, I started asking my parents why still
no one figured out that games should be translated into Russian in order to
extend their audience. Those times have come to the lands of former USSR a few
years later with pirate game translations, which developed into official localizations
in early 2000’s.

By that time I was already working as a Russian, Romanian and English translator, still
playing games as a hobby, and soon specialized in game localizations myself,
starting with an online indie game called Stars Empire. A few years later, in
2008, I was employed as translator and editor at GFI, a localization branch of Russobit-M, a
major game publisher company located in Moscow that released games for CSI countries. Since
then my passion for games became my profession for good and I still love it.