The Neverwinter Nights franchise has always been mod friendly for anyone to develop their own home-grown expansions. Now a long awaited downloadable expansion for Neverwinter Nights 2 looks like it will finally be released soon via publisher Atari.

The expansion is titled Mysteries of Westgate and has been in development for literally years by small Vancouver based Ossian Studios. In fact it was originally supposed to be released in 2007. This week on the game's official message boards Ossian CEO Alan Miranda stated, "I've gotten the official Atari stamp of approval today, meaning that MoW is now gold."

There's no word yet on a release date for the expansion nor a price point. More info on the expansion can be found at Ossian's web site. Mysteries of Westgate is promised to have a 15-plus hour non-linear single player campaign with four new monsters, new music and voice over work and more. Again it will be a digital download release only; there are no plans to release the game to stores.