MMO gaming community Aeria Games has announced that it has acquired the rights to distribute Japanese PC MMO Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online -- based on the celebrated line of Japanese RPGs – in the European and North American online PC gaming markets in four languages: English, French, German and Spanish.

The Shin Megami Tensei series is the intellectual property of Japanese developer and publisher, Atlus, and began in 1992 with the release of the original Shin Megami Tensei on the Super Famicom. The MMO has been developed by Japanese developer Cave and was originally released at the beginning of last year in Japan, and is set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo where survivors attempt to restore the city by defeating (or forming an alliance with) demons and solving puzzles.

In the announcement, Aeria Games highlighted "unique features" of Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online, such as a strategic real-time fighting system, diverse weaponry and devil "partnership", plus private dungeons for players to experience with friends.

"Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online has become a huge success with a large fan following," said an Aeria Games representative. "Aeria Games plans on bringing that success to the European and North American markets as it has done with its titles Last Chaos and Shaiya."