Sega purchases Atlus parent company Index for $141 million

Sega has reportedly purchased Index Corporation, parent company of publisher Atlus, for 14 billion yen ($141 million).

Ozzie Mejia

September 17, 2013 8:30 PM

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Sega has reportedly purchased Index Corporation, parent company of publisher Atlus. According to a report from Japan's Nikkei (via Kotaku), Sega will formally take managing control of Index for 14 billion yen ($141 million).

The news comes months after Index had filed for Civil Rehabilitation with a Tokyo District Court. The company's debt at that time hovered around $24.5 billion yen (approximately $249.7 million).

Atlus is known for publishing the Persona series, the Shin Megami Tensei series, Catherine, and dozens of other titles. They most recently announced that they would be publishing the crowdfunded Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure.

Sega's purchase of Index comes almost nine months after the publisher acquired Relic Entertainment from THQ.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?