Turbine Sues Atari Over Dungeons & Dragons MMO

Mustrum_Ridcully · Aug 28, 2009

Gamasutra - News - Turbine Sues Atari For At Least $30 Million Over Dungeons & Dragons MMO

Excerpt from Gamasutra said:
MMO developer Turbine this week sued game publisher Atari for breach of contract, fraud, and other counts, accusing the publisher of purposely pulling back support of Turbine-operated Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach in favor of a forthcoming internally-developed D&D MMO.

Excerpt from Gamasutra said:
The complaint comes after rumors that Atari's internal MMO studio, Cryptic, is working on a Neverwinter Nights MMO, which would also be based in the D&D universe.

Anyone heard more about this?

avin · Aug 28, 2009

As far as I know NWN rights belong to Bioware and were borrowed to Obsidian... am I wrong?

AllisterH · Aug 28, 2009

avin said:
As far as I know NWN rights belong to Bioware and were borrowed to Obsidian... am I wrong?

It depends on when the rights to Neverwinter reverted back to Hasbro at some time.

It's safe to assume that WOTC didn't license the name in perpetuity to Bioware so that license most likely expired.

However, in the mean time, Atari was given the videogame rights to Dungeons & Dragons so, assuming Bioware's no longer has Neverwinter, then Atari by default has it.

Turbine Sues Atari Over Dungeons & Dragons MMO

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