Company: Atlus

Atlus is a Japanese computer and video game developer, publisher, and distributor headquarted in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. It is known for developing the role-playing series Shin Megami Tensei which, counting spin-offs, has dozens of installments. The first Megami Tensei was an NES game published by Namco based on a trilogy of novels, but after the second, Atlus took over publishing the series. Atlus also released Shin Megami Tensei for the Super Famicom. Its corporate mascot is Jack Frost from Shin Megami Tensei.

Atlus also published Growlanser, a real time strategy/RPG from the creators of the classic Langrisser series, Career Soft. After the success of the first game, they acquired Career Soft, who developed the second through fifth installments in-house. In 2009 Atlus published Demon's Souls, developed by From Software, the game received praise from nearly every game magazine.

In October 2003, Takara acquired them. In 2006, Atlus was acquired by Index Holdings by buying a majority of its stock. Due to the company's ongoing financial problems, Atlus was dissolved in 2010 with all its assets transferred to the parent company Index Holdings.

From 2010 to 2013, Atlus, as a company, ceased to exist and its name became a brand of Index Corporation for video games in Japan. However, Atlus USA remained active and was renamed Index Digital Media, serving as the North American subsidiary of Index Corporation.

In June 2013, it was reported that Index Corporation filed for civil rehabilitation proceedings, facing bankruptcy with debts of 24.5 billion yen.
On 18 September 2013, it was reported that Sega won a bid to acquire the bankrupt Index for 14 billion yen. On 1 November 2013, all Index operations, including the Atlus brand and Index Digital Media, were transferred to Sega Dream Corporation (a new subsidiary established on 5 September 2013), and Sega announced that it would change the name of Sega Dream Corporation to Index Corporation.

On 18 February 2014, Sega announced the separation of Index Corporation's contents and solution businesses into a new subsidiary, Index Corporation, renaming the old Index Corporation and its remaining digital game business division to Atlus effective 1 April 2014. The new Atlus would include the foreign subsidiary, Index Digital Media, which would revert its name back to Atlus USA.