{"id":14743,"date":"2026-08-05T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14743"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:00:45","slug":"ea-is-now-a-private-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14743","title":{"rendered":"EA is now a private company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Jay Peters<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 4, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/ss_34588453e785e37518c3e448c91563c25ea0de95.1920x1080.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Electronic Arts has officially become a private company. Last September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/787112\/electronic-arts-55-billion-privacte-acquisition-pif-silver-lake-affinity-partners\">EA announced<\/a> that an investor group led by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners would be taking the company private in a $55 billion deal, and on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260804173096\/en\/EA-Announces-Completion-of-Acquisition-by-PIF-Silver-Lake-and-Affinity-Partners\">EA said the deal successfully closed<\/a>. The PIF will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/deals\/saudi-fund-to-own-almost-all-of-electronic-arts-after-buyout-661e92be\">reportedly own<\/a> 93.4 percent of the new company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal includes $20 billion of debt financing &#8211; making it the largest leveraged buyout ever &#8211; which could mean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/787723\/ea-private-deal-buyout-future-games-layoffs\">big changes at EA to justify the deal<\/a>. As of late, EA has been focusing heavily on its big tentpole franchises, including things like <em>Battlefield<\/em>, its sports games l \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/974736\/ea-private-company-deal-closed\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/974736\/ea-private-company-deal-closed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Peters &bull; August 4, 2026 Electronic Arts has officially become a private company. Last September, EA announced that an investor group led by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners would be taking the company private in a $55 billion deal, and on Tuesday, EA said the deal successfully closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14743\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}