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What Saudi Arabia’s role in the Electronic Arts buyout tells us about image, power and ‘game-washing’1.88 MB
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What Saudi Arabia’s role in the Electronic Arts buyout tells us about image, power and ‘game-washing’
The Conversation, Vol.2 October 2025
2025
Appears in The Conversation
Abstract
Video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), one of the biggest video game companies in the world behind games such as The Sims and Battlefield, has been sold to a consortium of buyers for US$55 billion (about A$83 billion). It is potentially the largest-ever buyout funded by private equity firms. Not AI, nor mining or banking, but video games.
Details
- Title
- What Saudi Arabia’s role in the Electronic Arts buyout tells us about image, power and ‘game-washing’
- Authors
- Jacqueline Burgess - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.2 October 2025
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.qd5mtv94f
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- © The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Engage Research Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991164943702621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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