Pawtucket-based Hasbro, Inc. and Infogrames Entertainment, the European parent company of Atari Group, jointly announced Wednesday that Hasbro has reacquired the digital gaming rights for its properties for $65 million. These rights were previously held by Infogrames on an exclusive basis as a result of a license agreement entered into concurrently with their purchase of Hasbro Interactive and Games.com from Hasbro in December of 2000, according to Business Wire reports.
As part of the transaction, Hasbro and Infogrames have entered into a new licensing arrangement that provides Infogrames with the rights for 10 Hasbro franchises – including Dungeons and Dragons and Monopoly. The deal gives Infogrames exclusive rights to Dungeons and Dragons in all interactive formats for the next 10 years, and already Atari plans to release three new games with the franchise this year and next.
Infogrames has also secured an exclusive, seven-year license on nine major Hasbro properties, covering wireless, Internet and interactive television formats. The games are Monopoly, Scrabble, Game of Life, Battleship, Clue, Yahtzee, Simon, Risk and Boggle.
Hasbro reacquires the digital gaming rights to all of its properties including Transformers, My Little Pony, Tonka, Magic: the Gathering, Connect Four, Candyland, Playskool, as well as hundreds more of its worldwide brands.
