Courthouse News Service outlines a lawsuit Turbine has filed in New York County Court against Atari over what seems to be an attempt to terminate Turbine as developer of Dungeons and Dragons Online and its upcoming free variant. The complaint says Atari failed to devote sufficient resources to Dungeons and Dragons Online, and accepted royalty payments, "though Atari knew it would not perform its obligations under the agreements and knew it would pretextually seek to declare Turbine in breach of the agreements." Turbine claims to have spent millions of dollars on development of DDO and that Atari executed a strategy that would terminate Turbine one way or another, and that ending their license agreement threatens both Turbine's past investment as well as the goodwill that Turbine has developed with the thousands of DDO players. Thanks Joystiq.