D&DO: Turbine Sues Atari

August 27, 8:17 PMSeattle MMORPG ExaminerThomas Wilde

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Interesting news on the Dungeons & Dragons Online front: Turbine, the game's developer, is suing Atari, D&DO's original publisher, for $30 million. The original story's on Courthouse News - and that article is strangely poetic in an old-fashioned way, like a newspaper columnist from 1995 talking about games; the writer seems to approach gaming like he's explaining it to his grandmother - and got picked up by Shack News yesterday.

Turbine originally licensed D&D rights from Atari to publish D&D Online, which launched alongside Atari's D&D-themed RTS Dragonshard. The Shack News and Courthouse News pieces cover the details in more... well, detail, but the long and the short of it is that Turbine is accusing Atari of breaking their licensing agreements.

The big takeaway point for most gamers, of course, is that the rumored Neverwinter Nights MMO, which Atari has yet to disclose information about, is apparently a reality... and that Atari is allegedly playing fast and loose with Turbine's contracts in order to promote the new Neverwinter.