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Sega Corporation [a] [b] is a Japanese multinational video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.It produces several multi-million-selling game franchises for arcades and consoles, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Angry Birds, Phantasy Star, Puyo Puyo, Super Monkey Ball, Total War, Virtua Fighter, Megami Tensei, Sakura Wars, Persona, and Yakuza.
Around the same time, Sega/Gremlin announced a name change to Sega Electronics, Inc. [35] As Rosen predicted, [25] a downturn in the arcade business starting in 1982 seriously hurt Sega, leading Gulf and Western to sell its North American arcade manufacturing organization and the licensing rights for its arcade games to Bally.
Sega Dream was renamed Index Corporation in November 2013 and gained possession of Atlus' name and intellectual properties. On April 1, 2014, the new Index Corporation was renamed Atlus, but was amputated from its non-gaming business that Sega transferred the same day to a new company called Index Corporation.
Sega employees seeking a slice of union success is representative of the tech world’s larger interest in organizing. Their efforts began amid the hot labor summer, as employees started their ...
Atlus currently has three internal development divisions inside the company responsible for the development of its titles: Creative Department 1st Production (Team Maniax): Headed by Shinjiro Takata as a production manager, this is the oldest and original development division, which has been active since the very beginning of the company.
GameWorks filed its first bankruptcy in 2004. On November 3, 2005, Sega Sammy Holdings , formed following the 2004 merger of Sega and Sammy , bought the controlling interests of GameWorks. GameWorks filed its second bankruptcy in 2010; as a result, Sega Entertainment USA, the parent company at that time, closed seven GameWorks venues on March ...
Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. [a], also known as the Sega Sammy Group, and doing business as as Sega Sammy, is a Japanese global mass media and entertainment conglomerate formed from the merger of Sega and Sammy in 2004. Both companies are involved in the amusement industry (Sega with arcade and home video games, Sammy with pachinko machines). [3]
This is a list of notable video game companies that have made games for either computers (like PC or Mac), video game consoles, handheld or mobile devices, and includes companies that currently exist as well as now-defunct companies.