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EA Closes Harry Potter Dev
Bright Light Studio, the team behind the recent string of Harry Potter titles from EA, has been shuttered.
Develop reports the UK-based developer has been closed with some of the employees being relocated to other EA internal studios, including Criterion and Playfish. The number of people affected is unknown, but it's believed the studio employed about 100 people total.
EA has declined to offer specifics on the matter. Reports of the studio's eventual closure began to surface last October. "We’re particularly proud of how many people from that studio are now working for other EA studios in UK, Europe and North America," EA told Game Informer.
[Source: Develop]
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