 "Neverwinter Nights" was originally to be published by Interplay, but the company lost the licence of the game to Atari and part of their "Dungeons & Dragons" licence to BioWare.After selling their D&D licence to Atari, BioWare developed "" and "Jade Empire".It had publishing relationships with Interplay Entertainment, Infogrames and, under its new name Atari, LucasArts, and Microsoft.