Ben Judd

Ben Judd (born October 25, 1974) is an American translator, producer, and agent.

He is a former Capcom employee.

Judd is an American and lives in Japan and became Capcom's first non-Japanese producer.

Judd has had several voice acting cameos in his career, including the English voice of the character Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney series.

He formerly worked for Digital Development Management (DDM), a video game agency.

At DDM, 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.

Judd is a co-founder of Dangen, a video game publisher.

Judd resigned as CEO of Dangen Entertainment following allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior by multiple people who had worked with him.

Judd joined Capcom in 2002 where he worked in the localization department at Capcom at the Osaka, Japan, branch.

Judd is a fluent speaker of Japanese, and speaks in the Kansai dialect.

He 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.

He also worked on the localization of Viewtiful Joe, Onimusha 3, God Hand and Resident Evil Outbreak.

He would later become Head of Globalization at Capcom.

Judd became acquainted with Capcom senior corporate officer Keiji Inafune while working on Dead Rising.

Judd would often act as a translator to Inafune at press events.

Judd says he is a big fan of the original Bionic Commando games.

He 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.

Judd was producer for two Bionic Commando games and Judd states that Inafune gave his support to both projects.

The titles were developed by Swedish developer Grin, and Judd expressed views at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show that Japanese developers lagged behind Western developers.

This made him the first foreign producer at Capcom.

In 2008, Judd also expressed interest in a new Bionic Commando title for the Wii.

The first released was Bionic Commando Rearmed, 2008.

The game was digitally distributed and sold over 130,000 copies during the launch week.

The second title was Bionic Commando, released in 2009.

The title sold 27,000 copies in America in its first week.

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.

Inafune, through Judd, stated, "Man, Japan is over. We're done. Our game industry is finished,"

Judd was to oversee the development of a first-person shooter Mega Man game code-named Maverick Hunter.

However, the project was cancelled in late 2010.

Judd left Capcom in 2011 and joined Digital Development Management (DDM).

He was the Director of Business Development at DDM Agency and was the Vice President and head of DDM Japan.

At DDM, Judd helped organize the Kickstarter crowdsourcing campaigns for Mighty No. 9 and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

He later worked as Comcept's agent.

Following the release of Mighty No. 9, Judd hosted a livestream and translated for Inafune.

Judd was highly critical of the game's development, and also said the game was "better than nothing", a quote that at first was mistakenly attributed to Inafune.

Judd has not represented Comcept since 2017, when they were purchased by Level-5, and became Level-5 Comcept.

Judd is Koji Igarashi's agent and translator.

Igarashi hired Judd after leaving Konami, and he attempted to find funding for Igarashi's new project.

Judd later introduced Igarashi to Inti Creates.

As of 2018, the game has sold 1.1 million copies.