As a follow-up to yesterday’s rumor report on Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine, Aeria Games has confirmed that it is going to localize the MMORPG. Aeria notified Siliconera to confirm the release, and also issued an official press release.

Aeria is going to be responsible for releasing Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online in both North America and Europe, and will be translating the game into English, French, German and Spanish. As mentioned in yesterday’s article, it was developed by Cave and published by Atlus in Japan and acquired a large fan following. That about covers it when it comes to breaking information from the press release.,,

A recent story at Siliconera discusses the possibility of the Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine free-to-play MMORPG, Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine being licensed by Aeria Games. The idea comes from a forum post was created by an Aeria Games Game Master named Taz 002 and is a poll asking if forum members would be interested in playing Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine. It has links to Japanese YouTube videos of gameplay footage and information on the game.

On page 22 of the thread, a user named Sivh posts a quote from another Aeria Games Game Master known as Superman0X in which the Game Master states that Aeria Games has acquired the English and German rights to Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine, and questions why English and German, and not Spanish. Superman0X returns to comment and state that English and German versions are being worked on at that moment…