Atari Revenues Down Significantly As Company Shift

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The Paris-based company revealed total revenues for the quarter were down 52.5 percent from the year before to �11.4 million ($15.3 mil [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] lion). That leaves the company 55.7 percent behind 2009 for the last nine months of the year, with �41 million in revenue for the period in 2010 ($53 million).
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