2006 headquarters redding california key people victor ireland founder website http www.gaijinworks.com gaijinworks is a united states video game publishing company founded by victor ireland in july 2006 . the company was established shortly after the dissolution of working designs in december 2005 of which ireland was president . containing the japanese word gaijin or foreigner gaijinworks would carry on the former company s legacy of localizing niche japanese games for american audiences while working closely with the original developers . although the company was initially inactive for the first three years of its existence the first localization project was announced in march 2009 as hudson soft s miami law for the nintendo ds . contents 1 company history 2 works published 3 references 4 external links company history edit in december 2005 victor ireland president of video game publisher working designs announced via the company s website that they would be closing their doors due to internal conflicts with sony computer entertainment and an inability to secure the approval rights to release games on sony s playstation 2 console such as b ken jidai katsugeki goemon . 1 the announcement was made one year since the company released their last game in north america growlanser generations in december 2004 which ireland claimed wounded us after the company was forced by sony to package two previously separate projects together which doubled production costs and halved profit for the title . 2 ireland stated that he was not ready to leave the game industry however and began negotiations with microsoft to work with other former members of his staff to localize role playing video games for their xbox 360 console . 1 seven months later in july 2006 ireland announced that he had begun a new company called gaijinworks that would carry on the legacy of working designs and would once again have himself as head translator . 3 although he had announced that game related news would follow the following summer with the official website going live the following late summer or fall information on the company s activities remained elusive along with a three year period of inactivity . 3 the silence was broken in january 2009 when ireland told 1up . com that game related news would be coming from the company in the following months though it would not be one of the main games they were known for . 4 in march 2009 gaijinworks had announced their first localization project since the company began hudson soft s crime based adventure game miami law for the nintendo ds . 5 ireland worked closely with hudson s design team on the project including taking them on a tour of an american city to aid in development . 6 gaijinworks has since partnered with sunsoft to release blaster master on the north american virtual console service as well as the wiiware remake blaster master overdrive . after this short partnership gaijinworks has partnered with monkeypaw games to release vanguard bandits on the playstation store as part of the psone classics line . 7 gaijinworks also digitally released other ps1 classics that were also originally published by working designs such as arc the lad collection and alundra . 8 victor ireland has also mentioned on various occasions that he is working towards adding both lunar silver star story complete and lunar 2 eternal blue complete to the playstation network . 9 works published edit title date developer platform s region s miami law june 9 2009 hudson soft nintendo ds na blaster master december 14 2009 sunsoft virtual console na eu blaster master overdrive february 8 2010 sunsoft wiiware na eu arc the lad october 12 2010 na january 18 2012 eu scei g craft playstation network na eu alundra october 12 2010 na august 15 2012 eu matrix software playstation network na eu arc the lad ii november 23 2010 na march 28 2012 eu scei arc entertainment playstation network na eu arc the lad iii january 4 2011 na june 13 2012 eu scei arc entertainment playstation network na eu vanguard bandits november 15 2011 human entertainment playstation network na eu class of heroes 2 june 4 2013 acquire playstation portable na class of heroes 2g june 2 2015 acquire playstation 3 na summon night 5 december 15 2015 felistella playstation portable na class of heroes 3 q1 2016 acquire playstation portable na summon night 6 lost borders tba 2017 media.vision playstation 4 playstation vita na eu references edit a b sinclair brad 2005 12 13 . working designs closes up shop . gamespot . retrieved 2009 04 20 . sinclair brad 2005 12 14 . q & a victor ireland on the end of working designs . gamespot . retrieved 2009 04 20 . a b sinclair brad 2006 07 26 . vic ireland resurfaces with gaijinworks . gamespot . retrieved 2009 04 20 . parish jeremy 2009 01 05 . 1up s retro blog is working designs successor finally making a move . 1up . com . retrieved 2009 04 20 . fletcher jc 2009 03 09 . miami law is first project from working designs founder s gaijinworks . joystiq . retrieved 2009 04 20 . found in translation miami law preview . nintendo power . future us 241 14 . may 2009 . vanguard bandits mecha and medieval mix comes to psn next week . siliconera . retrieved 12 november 2011 . classic rpgs alundra and arc the lad popping up on psn this tuesday 1 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gaijinworks & oldid 724198868 categories companies established in 2006video game companies of the united statesvideo game publisherscompanies based in shasta county california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent 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