A Bloomberg report published on September 10 says that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is reportedly looking at merging Electronic Arts with Savvy Games Group.
Such a merger could bring together franchises such as EA Sports FC, Madden NFL, Battlefield, The Sims, Pokémon Go, and Monopoly Go within a single gaming company.
The PIF’s executives are evaluating the option as a means of better coordinating their increasing number of gaming assets. However, no final decision has yet been reached and a merger is not expected before Savvy finishes its $6 billion purchase of Moonton.
Since the companies involved are large, any combination is said to have to go through regulatory review.
PIF’s Reported EA-Savvy Merger and EA’s Take-Private Deal
The report states that senior executives at PIF are considering a merger between EA and Savvy in order to better coordinate their gaming assets.
However, individuals who are familiar with the talks have said that no final decision has yet been reached and that a merger is not expected to take place before Savvy finishes its $6 billion acquisition of Moonton, the developer owned by ByteDance which produced Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
Putting the two businesses together would unite EA’s portfolio, which is mainly oriented towards consoles and PCs, with Savvy’s mobile and esports products under a single brand.
On August 4, EA turned into a private company after a consortium made up of PIF, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners finished acquiring it for $55 billion.
The shareholders of EA were paid $210 per share, the company was removed from Nasdaq and it remained with CEO Andrew Wilson. PIF already held 9.9 per cent of EA before the takeover and included that amount in the transaction.
Savvy Games Group’s Expansion and Unconfirmed Merger Plans
The Savvy Games Group was set up by PIF in 2021 as the primary means through which Saudi Arabia made its investments in the gaming and esport sectors, this being in line with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 initiative to diversify the Saudi economy.
It was given an investment strategy of $38 billion and acquired both ESL and FACEIT before merging them to form the ESL FACEIT Group.
In 2023 Savvy paid $4.9 billion to buy Scopely, the company that owns Monopoly Go!, Stumble Guys, and Star Trek Fleet Command. Then in 2025 Scopely spent a further $3.5 billion to acquire the games business of Niantic, which consisted of Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now together with their development teams and related services.
PIF has not yet reached a final decision regarding the merger, and the talks are based on the Bloomberg report rather than any official statement.
It is not expected that a merger will take place before Savvy has completed its acquisition of Moonton, and any merger would have to go through regulatory review. Nothing has been confirmed about the timeline, the structure, or whether the merger will actually go ahead.
