Chit-chat abound this morning suggests that specialists (Champions Online, Online) could be planning to create and release a new MMO based on Neverwinter Nights. That's the word in from Variety.

Atari purchased Cryptic last year, and even as that deal went through it was revealed the firm were hard at work on a secret project alongside Star Trek Online and Champions Online.

It emerges this week that this project is a new Neverwinter Nights game. Details are of course scant, but Variety's sources claim it is this game that was the main reason for Atari's acquisition.

More on this tittle-tattle as we get it.

By Luke Guttridge