It isn’t clear what happens to EA now… and why they even chose this route. EA has made the biggest move in the video game business since Microsoft… Continue reading
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EA is now a private company, with stakeholders that include Saudi’s PIF and Affinity Partners
In September 2025, EA confirmed that it was set to go private as part of a $55 billion (£41 billion) buyout. The deal – the second biggest in… Continue reading
After over a year of tense debate, Electronic Arts has reported it’s achieved “all regulatory approvals” for the proposed $55bn private acquisition of the company. In an 8K… Continue reading
Swati KhandelwalJul 24, 2026Web Security / Vulnerability Eight security flaws in NodeBB went public on Wednesday, along with the code to exploit them. Aikido Security rates all eight… Continue reading
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EU approves Saudi Arabia’s $55bn acquisition of EA, clearing path for largest private leveraged buyout of all time
The European Union has approved the controversial $55bn acquisition of Electronic Arts by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), private equity company Silver Lake, and investment company Affinity… Continue reading
A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization’s private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs only to… Continue reading
Yesterday, we reported on comments made by an ESA representative during a court hearing proposing new game preservation laws, in which they claimed that private Minecraft servers were… Continue reading
Stop Killing Games was in the news yesterday as it appeared on the California Senate committee hearing, where it continued to draw much debate and failed to proceed… Continue reading
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the video game industry in the United States. It’s primarily seen as a sort of interest/pressure group for… Continue reading
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The ESA claims private servers for Minecraft are ‘illegal’ in Stop Killing Games hearing
A new hearing for California’s Protect Our Games Act took place this week, and once again, the ESA pushed back hard against the Stop Killing Games movement. The… Continue reading
