Working Designs were a cool English publisher of some great Japanese games that would of never seen the light of day here otherwise.
What I loved most about their translations was the work put behind them to fully localise them. I mean they dubbed them and everything.
I really hate games that still have jap songs, or worse, all the original jap voice overs... I mean whats the point? If we understood Japanese, we wouldn't by the English translation of a game.
Taken from imdb
After attempting to bring one of the Goemon video game series and other various video game titles from Japan in the US, he and his company have tried so hard to get the approval from Sony Computer Entertainment America, but it never happened and therefore they were canceled every single time. This results in Working Designs going out of business for good.
This is true as the companies last words were
Sony has made it clear that they do not want the details of their dealings with any publisher made public,. Suffice to say that you would buy what we wanted to sell if we could sell it
Yes, that's one of those many reasons I hate Sony
It was said Victor Ireland CEO of the now dead Working Designs was starting up a new company, but I can't remember the web address, and thus far is was nothing more than a splash page.