$55 Billion Deal for Electronic Arts Is Among the Biggest Buyouts Ever

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Source: New York Times

Sept. 29, 2025, 8:27 a.m. ET


The video game publisher Electronic Arts announced on Monday plans to be taken private in a deal valued at roughly $55 billion by a group of investors that includes a fund managed by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.

The all-cash deal would pay stockholders $210 per share in cash, a 25 percent premium to EA’s share price before news of the deal leaked. If completed, it would be among the largest buyouts of a publicly traded company to date.

The deal’s investors include Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which already owns about 10 percent of the company, the private equity firm Silver Lake and Mr. Kushner’s Affinity Partners.

EA makes such popular games as Madden N.F.L. and Battlefield. It is also the publisher of The Sims, a video game simulating suburban life that has been a best seller since its release in 2000.


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I had been seeing articles and articles about this buyout but suddenly Kushner's name appeared.

Apparently the NYT buried an article Friday - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/business/electronic-arts-buyout-jared-kushner.html

[Ponietz]

1. EA was already enshittified

But it’s going to get a lot worse, now. Algorithmic manipulation of children for micro transactions should be illegal.

[hunter]

2. Crappy right wing news, crappy right wing games, crappy right wing schools...

... crappy authoritarian leaders...

It's all part of the plan.

[Mr. Sparkle]

3. Very disappointing to hear this, i bet they screw up the company

private equity couldn't run a bath.

[Moostache]

4. EA has been a dumpster fire for a long time...

This will only accelerate the fall into irrelevance. The gaming industry in general is about to hit an early-80's style console crash out and bloodbath of unemployment and shuttering of existing companies. For nearing 15 years, gaming continues to chase "influencers" and utilize 'microtransactions' (i.e. - unregulated gambling marketed at children, usually pre-teens and teens). Its been slimy as fuck and will only get worse once the private equity scumbags borrow against the inflated evaluation of the company and gut it completely to launder their otherwise ill-gotten financial backing.

Slimy doesn't begin to cover it all.

[Mr. Sparkle]

5. That's exactly what i fear and think will happen.

Ea has so many great titles, i hope they eventually fall into good hands when its assets are sold off.