14 DAY TRIAL // Video game publisher SEGA officially announces that it has created a wholly owned subsidiary company called SEGA Dream Corporation that has acquired Index, the firm that controls Atlus Publishing.
The decision was made in order to give SEGA access to a number of new intellectual properties that can sustain important video game series, especially on the PC and on mobile devices.
Apparently, SEGA is also interested in the pachinko business that Atlus was running.
NeoGAF quotes the announcement as explaining that, “Under the agreement, SEGA will take over the operations conducted by Index, the bankrupt company that applied to the Tokyo District Court for the commencement of civil rehabilitation proceedings effective from June 27, 2013.”
The acquisition gives SEGA access to properties like Shin Megami Tensei, Persona and Dragon’s Crown.
The entire deal is rumored to have cost the publisher 140 million dollars (91 million Euro).