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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.
In 2004, the GameWorks chain of arcades became owned by Sega, until the chain was sold off in 2011. Sega Republic, an indoor theme park in Dubai, opened to the public in 2009, while the following year, Sega began providing the 3D imaging for Hatsune Miku's holographic concerts. [365]
Sega was founded on June 3, 1960, by American businessman Martin Bromley. The company started to distribute slot machines to U.S. bases in Japan. During the 1960s, Service Games was renamed to Sega Enterprises Ltd. Sega Enterprises sold their first product, the electro-mechanical game called Periscope which became a worldwide hit.
This is a list of development studios owned by Sega, a Japanese video game developer and publisher based in Tokyo, Japan. Sega itself is a development studio of Sega Sammy Holdings, a company formed in 2004 after it merged with Sammy. Accompanied with the list is their history of game development.
The same applies to franchises owned by Atlus which Sega acquired in 2013 or the intellectual properties of Technosoft acquired in 2016. Sega is not the IP owner of all the franchises it has published, typically it is the case with the games it has made internally, but as examples ToeJam & Earl and Condemned: Criminal Origins are owned by its ...
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.
He owned every Sonic game for the Megadrive -- the game system known in the U.S. as the Sega Genesis -- and its successor, the Sega Saturn. He collected "Sonic the Comic," a biweekly magazine. Ben and his friends loved trying to solve the mysteries surrounding Sonic.
Minami added further that the partnership with Sega allowed them to bring these titles to Western markets. The four games included MadWorld, Infinite Space, Bayonetta and Vanquish. [10] Each was released in 2009. All the intellectual properties created by PlatinumGames as part of the partnership are owned by Sega. [11]