Variety.com reports that Atari has picked up the North American publishing rights for the PC, PS2, and Wii versions of Tale of Despereaux, the animated movie tie-in announced in the summer. The game needed a new publisher thanks to the demise of Brash Entertainment, and time is of the essence, as the movie is set for release in North America on December 19. Despereaux times call for Despereaux measures, and this deal is so rushed that game boxes will still apparently brashly carry the Brash logo. Atari is also now to distribute the DS edition of the game, but the Xbox 360 edition is not included in the deal, and it sounds as if that SKU may have been skewered along the way. According to the report, Universal and Brash are still shopping for publishers in other territories where the movie will be showing.