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===2005β2010: Under Humongous, Inc.=== In August 2005, Atari, Inc. sold Humongous Entertainment to their majority parent [[Atari SA|Infogrames Entertainment SA]] for shares worth {{US$|10.3 million}}. After the sale, Infogrames shuttered Humongous Entertainment and secured the studio's assets to Humongous, Inc., a holding company formed solely for this purpose.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2005-08-28/atari-sells-humongous-to-infogrames-for-10-dot-3-million |title=Atari Sells Humongous to Infogrames for $10.3 Million |date=August 28, 2005 |access-date=January 27, 2014 |publisher=[[Business Week]] |archive-date=September 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923200601/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2005-08-28/atari-sells-humongous-to-infogrames-for-10-dot-3-million |url-status=live}}</ref> With this point, newer ''Backyard Sports'' titles were developed by other studios for consoles and computers, with Atari, Inc. continuing to hold publishing rights to the series under license from Humongous, Inc. In March 2008, Infogrames purchased the remaining shares of Atari, Inc. that they didn't own and renamed itself to Atari SA the following year.<ref name="buyoutapproved">[http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080430/nyw164.html?.v=1 Infogrames Entertainment S.A. and Atari, Inc. Announce Agreement to Merge: Financial News] Yahoo! Finance {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527190525/http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080430/nyw164.html?.v=1 |date=May 27, 2008}}</ref><ref name="buyoutcompleted">{{cite web |url=http://corporate.infogrames.com/infogramesgb/2008/10/infogrames_entertainment_sa_an_1.php |title=Atari GB |publisher=Corporate.infogrames.com |date=October 9, 2008 |access-date=January 3, 2018 |archive-date=February 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219211304/http://corporate.infogrames.com/infogramesgb/2008/10/infogrames_entertainment_sa_an_1.php |url-status=dead}}</ref> The two Atari businesses continued to release entries in the series within this time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://files.atari.com/corporate/0908-GB_annual%20report.pdf |title=Infogrames Entertainment Fiscal Year 2008/2009 Earnings |publisher=Infogrames |date=May 29, 2009 |access-date=January 3, 2023 |archive-date=January 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103073426/http://files.atari.com/corporate/0908-GB_annual%20report.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
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