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[[Atlus]] is a videogame company that was founded in 1986. While not necessarily having the name-recognition of some larger companies, they have a huge number of quality products, both as a developer and a publisher, and often both at once. The Japanese HQ portion of the company is both a publisher and developer, the North American branch serves as a publisher and localization company that publishes more games than just what its parent company Atlus Japan develops and publishes; in the list of games below said games are listed with Atlus being the North American publisher.

 

[http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/30/atlus-absorbed-merges-with-mobile-developer/ On October 1, 2010, Atlus merged with Index Holdings] Or something, [http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/30/atlus-usa-employees-comment-on-management-shift/ it isn't quite clear] [http://www.siliconera.com/2010/09/03/a-message-from-atlus-usa-president-shinichi-suzuki/ what's going on].

 

{{examples|Some of their titles (including externally developed games localized by Atlus USA) include:}}

* ''[[Hexyz Force]]'' (Publisher)²

* ''[[Izuna]]'' (North American Publisher)

* ''[[Lufia]] and the Ruins of Lore'' (North American Publisher)

* ''[[Luminous Arc]]'' (North American Publisher)

* [[Friendly Rival]]: [[Nippon Ichi Software|Nippon Ichi]], in North America at least. The fact that [[Crack is Cheaper|many die-hard fans buy most of both companies' games]] probably helps them getting along.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Atlus-developed games have a tendency to be quite hard. However, with Atlus USA, this doesn't always apply to games from other companies that it picks up for a Western release (not that Atlus USA hasn't localized hard games from other companies, which it definitely has).

* [[Widget Series]]

* [[Woolseyism]]: As Atlus USA doesn't develop anything itself, most of its publishing involves localizing Japanese games, which it does quite well.

 

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