WORKING DESIGNS' ARC THE LAD OFFICIAL STRATEGY GUIDE: CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO NOW AVAILABLE

Oct. 9, 2002 (Redding, CA) = The biggest console game of 2002 now has the biggest strategy guide ever released. Working Designs announced today that their enormous Arc The Lad Official Strategy Guide: Chapters One And Two, which thoroughly covers the first two games in Working Designs' acclaimed Arc The Lad Collection, has shipped to stores across North America.

"There's never, ever been a strategy guide this complete before," said Victor Ireland, president of Working Designs. "It's big. Really, really big. By far the biggest, most comprehensive guide we've ever published, and as far we know the biggest one ever made for a console game. What that means for Arc The Lad fans is more tips, strategies, hernias, maps, charts, interviews and information. If you can think of it, it's probably in there."

The strategy guide packs more than 570 pages with everything players could want to know about Arc The Lad and Arc The Lad II, including:

• - Complete walkthroughs for both games

• - Detailed, full-color maps of every location

• - Solutions to every Hunters' Guild job and locations of every Wanted Monster

• - Comprehensive charts for weapons, spells, items and enemies

• - Information on hidden quests and secret characters

• - Behind-the-scenes interviews with Arc Collection's creators

• - Three sheets of glossy character and memory card stickers

• - An exclusive offer for a huge, free Arc The Lad Collection poster

In addition, the hardbound volume comes complete with a reversible dust jacket and multiple ribbon bookmarks for saving readers' places. With a suggested price of $29.95, the Arc The Lad Official Strategy Guide: Chapters One And Two is available at Electronics Boutique and other game retailers, and also directly from Working Designs.

ABOUT ARC THE LAD COLLECTION

Arc The Lad Collection is the largest console strategy-RPG anthology ever published, and is available for the Sony PlayStation® game console. It features 100 hours of gameplay from four complete games, as well as a documentary CD, a hardcover 150+ page leatherette instruction manual, and an Omake box containing 22 character mini-standees, a custom plastic memory card holder embossed with a character from the game, and four custom analog thumb-button covers. It carries an ESRB rating of "Teen" for violence, suggestive themes, and mild language.

ABOUT WORKING DESIGNS

Working Designs is a California-based company that publishes CD software for the Sony PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and Sony PlayStation® game console. They specialize in converting CD software from Japanese to English and enhancing the graphics, gameplay, and audio before releasing the titles in North America, and were the first third-party CD-ROM publisher in the United States.