Atari's move to become a more online game-centric publisher is continuing to evolve and part of that move means getting out of the European market in terms of marketing and distribution. Today MCV reports that Atari will have that part of its business transfered to a newly formed company called Distribution Partners next month.

That company is believed to become a wholly owned part of Namco Bandai Games in the coming months. Once that transfer is done, Atari's headquarters will be based in the US. The publisher will release Ghostbusters in the US in June and Champions Online in July from its Cryptic Studios dev team. Aside from Star Trek Online (due in 2010) there's no solid work yet on Atari's future publishing plans.