Gaijinworks
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| Type | Privately Held Company |
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | California |
| Key people | Victor Ireland |
| Industry | Computer and Video Game Industry |
| Website | http://www.gaijinworks.com/ |
Gaijinworks is a company founded by Victor Ireland, former President of the now-defunct Working Designs. At the time of writing it is not entirely clear what the company is set out to do, though there are some hints. The official website only shows a logo and a webmaster email, but the metatags of the website contain words such as Xbox 360, import games, localization and Japanese role-playing games.
When Victor Ireland announced Working Designs was no more he also stated that he wanted to try to bring Japanese role-playing games to the Xbox 360 in western territories and considering the metatags, we can assume this company will do just that. There was some bad blood between Sony and Working Designs but it seems that is all in the past now since the words Sony and Playstation popped up too. Amusingly, another metatag is "11 is over", in reference to Working Designs' slogan "Our games go to 11!".
Since the metatags also contain the words otaku and anime, and the word gaijin means foreigner in Japanese, it would seem this website is geared towards the Japan fanatic and will do more than just bring games from Japan to western markets.
