SEGA Sammy will be purchasing Index Corporation, according to a report from Nikkei (Nihon Keizai Shimbun).
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.
HOOOlllly shhhhhhhhhhhh
edit: This could be good for VITA owners. Phantasy Star Nova is a VITA exclusive and Persona is just as big and IP, so at least it looks like a port of Persona 5 might be coming to VITA.
:-)
Well the good news is, Atlus will remain in 3rd party hands. The bad news is Sega has a track record of either killing their popular franchises or not localizing them. So I am both happy and worried about this outcome.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
Bleep off Sega you are terrible why dont you die already!
So done with Sega they havent done anything right this entire gen they killed of Valkyrie Chronicles,Bayonetta,Alpha Protocol and so much more. Valkyrie Chronicles could have been a big franchise instead they made 2,3 on a dead handheld outside of Japan.
Mark my words no more Atlus games in the west and the destruction of Atlus IP's by the incredibly incompetent Sega.
do you remember about all those awesome Atlus franchises? If you want to continue playing them then start learning Japanese because that will be the only way. ;(
Lets hope its not as bad as it looks. At least none of the big 3 bought them, we can enjoy atlus game on all platforms.