Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield” and “The Sims,” is being acquired for $52.5 billion in what could become the largest buyout ever funded by private equity firms. PIF, which was currently the largest insider stakeholder in Electronic Arts, will be rolling over its existing 9.9% investment in the company. “The Saudi PIF has been a very active player in the video gaming market since 2022, taking minority stakes in most scaled public video gaming publishers, and also outright purchases of companies like ESL, FACEIT, and Scopely,” he wrote. “Electronic Arts is an extraordinary company with a world-class management team and a bold vision for the future,” said Kushner. After Dell restructured its operations as a private company, it returned to the stock market with publicly traded shares in 2018.