Atlus' parent company files for bankruptcy protection

Title Atlus' parent company files for bankruptcy protection
Author Nick Diamon
Posted in Games
When June 27, 2013

Index Corporation, the parent company of Atlus, has filed for "civil rehabilitation" for bankruptcy protection. Polygon has the english summary of the original filing. They owe roughly $224 million to creditors..

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Index has been in financial trouble for a while, so this isn't too much of a surprise. I do hope Atlus pulls through intact; they're the only outfit making good turn-based RPGs ever since Square-Enix decided to dedicate so much of its time to faffing around with mobile garbage.

Good luck to them. I hope they emerge intact, because they are responsible for some of my favorite RPGs.