Electronic Arts wins HP Game Rights

[brooksindy]

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No: HPFGUIDX C6515
From: brooksindy
Subject: Electronic Arts wins HP Game Rights
Date: 8/10/00 11:17 am  (ET)

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/potter000810.html

" A British computer games
 firm, Electronic Arts, said today it had won the
 worldwide rights to develop games based on the
 wildly popular Harry Potter series of children's
 books.
 " The company.... said it had also secured the rights to develop and
 publish Harry Potter games for the Internet.....
 " 'We are extremely excited to become part of the
 Harry Potter phenomenon by bringing our own brand of
 interactive magic to this fantastic series,' Don Mattrick,
 president of Electronic Arts' studios said in a statement."

More details are in the story, which I did not quote in full above,
for copyright reasons.