UPDATE: According to CNBC, Amazon are now not making a bid for EA, who calls the GLHF and USA Today story a mere "rumour". I’ve reached out to Amazon and EA for comment, and will let you know if and when we hear more. It sounds as though the consolidation of the games industry continues. Luna is cloud-based, so a little different to Game Pass, but acquiring a big player such as EA certainly wouldn't hurt Amazon’s chances to give the ailing service a shot on the arm. There's also Amazon's own streaming service Luna to consider as well. If a deal between Amazon and EA does go ahead, it could mean EA's current relationship with Microsoft’s Game Pass service could be threatened. Who wouldn’t want to see Mass Effect 3’s ending remade for the small screen? Amazon would also gain more material to adapt to TV for their Prime Video service. That fell apart.Īs the publishers of online successes such as Apex Legends and sports games prone to yearly sequelitis, along with owning studios including Maxis and BioWare, EA have plenty to offer a buyer looking for a foothold in gaming. EA allegedly spoke with Apple and Disney about a buyout, and began more involved talks with Comcast-NBCUniversal. Amazon was just one massive conglomerate interested in the AAA publisher. Imogen shares her favourite thing about EA and Respawn's free-to-play shooter Apex Legends.Īs Graham reported in May, EA have been scouting around for a buyer for some time. Maybe just not as many as Microsoft’s $68.7 billion buyout of Activision Blizzard, revealed in January. No clue yet as to how much they’d be paying, but it’s likely to be ranging in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Amazon are intending to announce they’ve made an offer to buy publishing colossus Electronic Arts later today, according to a new report from USA Today’s For The Win, who cite sources from Swedish gaming agency GLHF.
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