Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund is contemplating bringing EA and Savvy collectively to create one large gaming supergroup, according to Bloomberg.
No closing resolution will likely be made on the transfer till Savvy completes its $6bn acquisition of Cell Legends Bang Bang maker Moonton, the report says.
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund controls Savvy Video games Group, which acquired Monopoly Go maker Scopely for $4.9bn in 2023. Savvy then helped Scopely acquire Niantic’s games portfolio for $3.5bn in 2025, bringing the likes of Pokémon Go, Monster Hunter Now and Pikmin Bloom into Saudi possession.
Later that very same yr, a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund acquired Electronic Arts, maker of EA FC, Madden, The Sims and Apex Legends, for $55bn. The deal took the corporate non-public and into PIF’s portfolio. Savvy additionally owns esports outfit ESL Faceit Group, and invested $1bn in Embracer in 2022.
Extra just lately, Bloomberg reported that Savvy could acquire Mobile Legends Bang Bang maker Moonton for $6bn, although that deal has but to be accomplished. At this time’s report means that the potential new Scopely-EA-Moonton supergroup would solely come collectively as soon as the deal for the latter is full.
Bloomberg’s report notes that although sturdy in PC and console, EA’s perceived weak spot within the cell market may very well be rectified by working extra intently with the likes of Scopely and Niantic Video games, now often called Scopely Discover.
As we previously reported, a senior EA staffer we spoke to shortly after the deal was introduced prompt that the go-private deal was partly motivated by EA’s weak spot within the profitable cell video games market, which reaches extra gamers worldwide and generates over half the worth within the video games market total.
Final week, Bloomberg additionally broke the information that Savvy Games Group boss Brian Ward would be stepping down.