To enable players to more conveniently play a game with each other through a communication means.
A Go game service server 10 for a communication game between game devices connected through a communication network receives a competition request from the game device to prepare a game waiting member list 36b and transmits the game waiting member list 36b to the game device from which the competition request is received, to notify the game device of a competition request from the other device. Upon setting two competitive game devices on the basis of the notified competition requests, the Go game service server 10 discriminates language used by each of operators using these two game devices, on the basis of the member list 36a, applies translation processing to messages received from the respective game devices, according to each language and transmits the messages to the respective game devices.
MIFUJI KIMIYASU
KIKUCHI MASAAKI
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