Atlus USA
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | January 18, 1991 |
| Headquarters | Irvine, California, U.S. |
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| Parent | Atlus |
Atlus U.S.A., Inc., doing business as Atlus USA, is the North American publishing branch of Japanese video game developer Atlus, primary known for localizing titles for both them and other third-party developers. Its first original role-playing title was Revelations: Persona on the PlayStation, described by staff as an attempt to break into the Western role-playing game market and establish the company's Megami Tensei franchise through its Persona sub-series.
Outside of being the American publishing subsidiary for the Japanese parent developer, Atlus USA functions similarly to Agetec and NIS America in which they act as a western publisher for select Japanese titles for the American market, such as Demon Souls, Guilty Gear, and Ogre Battle. On November 2013, Atlus USA was restructured to be governed under Sega of America after Sega Sammy acquired had their parent company through Index Corporation. Despite the publishing divisions merging, Sega and Atlus continued to operate as separate entities, with all existing Atlus franchises remaining under their pre-established Atlus brand.
Atlus Co., Ltd, a Japanese game developer founded in 1986, had been publishing its own titles in its native country since the release of Puzzle Boy in 1989. Its North American branch was first established in Irvine, California on January 18, 1991, under the name Atlus Software, but traces its origins as Asuka Technologies founded on February 27, 1989. The branch was eventually succeeded by Atlus USA on April 1, 1999, becoming a separate subsidiary to Atlus. At the time of its inauguration in 1999, Atlus USA was owned at 85.7% by the Japanese parent company, with the remaining stock being shared among four employees. Reason given for the creation of Atlus USA was that although Atlus Co Ltd was already operating an American branch, it wanted to establish a local company in the United States. In 2010, Atlus' then-owner Index Corporation dissolved the Japanese Atlus as a separate entity, while Atlus USA was renamed Index Digital Media. In 2014, one year after Index Corporation was purchased by Sega, Index Digital Media reverted to being Atlus USA.
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