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
Bōken Jidai Katsugeki Goemon. 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. Ireland stated that he was not ready to leave the game industry, however, and began negotiations with
Microsoft to work with the other former members of his staff to localize
role-playing video games for their
Xbox 360 console. 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. 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. 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. 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. Gaijinworks also digitally released other PS1 classics that were also originally published by
Working Designs such as
Arc the Lad Collection and
Alundra. 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. ==Works published==