After wavering for a few hours with a bland “no comment” Sega Sammy Holdings finally sent a press release officially announcing the acquisition of Index Corporation as a wholly owned Subsidiary, including Atlus and its IPs.
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.
i hope sega allows atlus to do what they really are according in their plans... if SMT remains to ninty so does Persona remains to SONY, hope it stays that way..
and can sega allow atlus USA to localized Yakuza, valkyria chronicles, phantasy star and any other titles that didnt leave japan if they do not want to do it by themselves?
Persona 5 now featuring Shadow the hedgehog.
Persona 4S Chie falls in love with Sonic.
Ettrian Oddesey after IV is dead the franchise sells even less then Valkyrie Chronicles III.
So it's finally over. It'll be interesting to see how this affects Atlus. I hope Sega localizes the more popular series at least.
oh god, i hope atlus doesn't own the demon's souls IP... i don't want to see sega ruin it.
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Worried about localization...