Electronic Arts’ $55B buyout has officially completed – and the company is already plotting layoffs

Massively Overpowered · Aug 5, 2026

Gamers who have been following along already knew that this whole thing was academic, but now it is official: Electronic Arts has been bought out for $55B, which has made the games developer and publisher a private entity that is owned by several investment firms, chief of which being one managed by the Saudi Arabian government. The […]