Recently, the rights to several classic game franchises, including Master of Orion, Total Annihilation, and Star Control, were auctioned off following Atari's filing for bankruptcy earlier this year. You can see a list of the franchises involved, and whom they ended up with, below.
Total Annihilation franchise bought by Wargaming [PC Gamer]
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