No word on how much the studio went for. (Edit: the Boston Globe quotes an unnamed source at pricing the deal at $160m.)

Presumably no impact to AC, DDO or LOTRO  for now, other then their continued operation. Turbine has been rumored to have had cash flow issues for a while now, something which DDO’s recent flirtation with sleazy lead generation did little to assuage.

The number of independently owned MMO development studios is now one less.

Turbine states the basis of Atari’s failing to promote Stormreach was based on a desire to compete in the same genre, with its own internally-developed D&D MMO. Or as Turbine states in the complaint, Atari sought “to to free itself from its obligations under the contracts in order to clear the way for the launch of its own competing MMO service based on the D&D and Advanced D&D intellectual properties.”