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EA loses $120m on Harry Potter delay

by Tim Ingham
Tuesday, September 9th 2008 at 12:00PM

The delay to EA Casual Entertainment’s Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince game will costs the publisher $120m in this financial year.

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