Atlus

Atlus Co., Ltd.
Native name
株式会社アトラス
Kabushiki gaisha Atorasu
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
Founded
  • 7 April 1986; 38 years ago (1986-04-07) (as Atlus Co., Ltd.)
  • 5 September 2013; 11 years ago (2013-09-05) (as Sega Dream Corporation)
HeadquartersNishi-Shinagawa, ,
Key people
Yukio Sugino (Chairman)
Osamu Ohashi (President)
Katsura Hashino
Kazuma Kaneko
Shigenori Soejima
ProductsList of Atlus games
Number of employees
338[1] (April 2023)
ParentSega (2013–present)
DivisionsTeam Maniax
P-Studio
Studio Zero
Websiteatlus.co.jp

Atlus Co., Ltd. (株式会社アトラス, Kabushikigaisha Atorasu) is a Japanese video game developer. They are also a publisher and arcade manufacturer. They also are a distribution company based in Tokyo, Japan. The company is known for video game series such as Megami Tensei, Persona, Etrian Odyssey, and Trauma Center, as well as Print Club (Purikura) arcade machines. Its corporate mascot is Jack Frost, a snowman-like character from Shin Megami Tensei.

Atlus was established in April 1986. It spent its early years as a video game developer for other companies. It became a video game publisher of its own in 1989 and existed until it was merged into Index Corporation in October 2010.[2][3]

References

  1. "企業情報".
  2. 連結子会社の分割(新設分割)及び商号変更に関するお知らせ Archived 8 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 当社子会社の事業譲受に関するお知らせ (in Japanese). Sega Corporation. 1 November 2013. Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.

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