Japanese JRPG developer ImageEpoch has been in the JP news lately as eerie signs show that the company is dying slowly.

Three weeks ago, ImageEpoch had been found having moved from their current offices.  The property was even up to rent at the local real estate agency. This coming after the company had failed to show up at a trial for unpaid invoices.

Two days ago, ImageEpoch's PSP titles were withdrawn from the Japanese PSN (fortunetaly my copy of Sol Trigger is safe in both of my PSPs).

And today, it appears that ImageEpoch's upcoming 3DS RPG Stella Glow has seen its official teaser site taken down.

It's clear that the company's just lost its rights on all their games : either they are bankrupt or they are being taken over.

ImageEpoch had decided to focus on 3DS despite numerous sucessful titles on PSP. They published Tôshin Tôshi in early 2014 on 3DS, which sold a mere 20K FW. Then they marketed an idol game called Sonipro in summer 2014 that absolutely bomba at 6K FW.

Their last PSP games sold 120K and 60K FW respectively, so betraying Playstation players cost them their business. Other developers should learn from this and watch what they do.

I only know them for Luminous Arc...

other than those games, I never heard of them again :P

Seconded but I think his last two sentences is the point of this thread lawl

"Their last PSP games sold 120K and 60K FW respectively, so betraying Playstation players cost them their business."

Here is the point of this thread guys. Predictable

Looks like Sega took over Stella Glow. Coming June 4.

I don't know who they are but it looks like Sega saved them according to Badgenome's post and it;s still going on 3DS.

Dunno what to think about the betrayal part though, it's kinda funny how anyone that betrays Nintendo or MS it's either deserved or they weren't doing good enough.

I suppose if there's a recent Betrayal on PC (like there mostly is) it's got to be Arrowhead Game Studios for making Helldivers which is exclusive to Playstation systems even though they started as PC devs and made PC games first and they even sold well.

But still

It was the quietest bankruptcy since Valcon Games.

Pretty sad news, charcater design is superb what i see

Its pretty clear judging from the OP They, after their succesfull psp games and low 3ds sales, should have gone mobile.. Nothing else could have saved them.. Should have bowed down to the new Mobile Overlords

I imagine that Time & Eternity may have had something to do with it. It seemed to have a rather large budget for an imageepoch game.