Ben Judd was born on October 25,1974 and is an American translator, producer, and agent.
32 Facts About Ben Judd
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Ben Judd has had several voice acting cameos in his career, including the English voice of the character Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney series.
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Ben Judd formerly worked for Digital Development Management, a video game agency.
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At DDM, Ben Judd helped organize the Kickstarter crowdsourcing campaigns for Mighty No 9 and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night as well as helped create the deal to make Scalebound.
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Ben Judd is a co-founder of Dangen, a video game publisher.
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Ben Judd resigned as CEO of Dangen Entertainment following allegations inappropriate behavior by multiple people who had worked with him.
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Ben Judd joined Capcom in 2002 where he worked in the localization department at Capcom at the Osaka, Japan, branch.
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Ben Judd is a fluent speaker of Japanese, and speaks in the Kansai dialect.
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Ben Judd helped write the English localization of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, as well as providing the English voice to the character Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney series.
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Ben Judd worked on the localization of Viewtiful Joe, Onimusha 3, God Hand and Resident Evil Outbreak.
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Ben Judd became acquainted with Capcom senior corporate officer Keiji Inafune while working on Dead Rising.
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Ben Judd says he is a big fan of the original Bionic Commando games.
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Ben Judd says he made an original pitch for a new Bionic Commando game in 2004, but the pitch was not approved by higher ups at Capcom.
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Ben Judd was producer for two Bionic Commando games and Ben Judd states that Inafune gave his support to both projects.
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The titles were developed by Swedish developer Grin, and Ben Judd expressed views at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show that Japanese developers lagged behind Western developers.
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In 2008, Ben Judd expressed interest in a new Bionic Commando title for the Wii.
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Ben Judd acted as translator for Japanese video game producer Keiji Inafune when he appeared at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show and Inafune criticized the state of Japanese video games.
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Ben Judd was to oversee the development of a first-person shooter Mega Man game code-named Maverick Hunter.
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Ben Judd left Capcom in 2011 and joined Digital Development Management.
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Ben Judd was the Director of Business Development at DDM Agency and was the Vice President and head of DDM Japan.
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At DDM, Ben Judd helped organize the Kickstarter crowdsourcing campaigns for Mighty No 9 and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
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Ben Judd was highly critical of the game's development, and said the game was "better than nothing", a quote that at first was mistakenly attributed to Inafune.
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Ben Judd has not represented Comcept since 2017, when they were purchased by Level-5, and became Level-5 Comcept.
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Igarashi hired Ben Judd after leaving Konami, and he attempted to find funding for Igarashi's new project.
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Ben Judd set up a deal with Microsoft for PlatinumGames to develop the action role playing game Scalebound.
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Ben Judd has acted as a translator for Hideki Kamiya.
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Ben Judd acted as a translator for Kamiya and Inaba for the announcement of Bayonetta 3.
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In 2017, Ben Judd co-founded Dangen, an independent video game publisher in Japan.
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Ben Judd helped organize the "Indie Megashow" held on September 20,2017, in Tokyo.
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Ben Judd has made regular appearance at Bitsummit, an annual independent gaming show in Kyoto.
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Ben Judd was the MC for the Bitsummit events in 2013,2016, and 2017.
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At the fourth Bitsummit in 2016, Judd led a panel discussion with Ian Flood of Yacht Club Games, Takuya Aizu of Inti-Creates, and Rhodri Broadbent of Dakko Dakko.