A report from The Wall Street Journal reveals that EA is closing in on a deal to become a private company, with private equity investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and the firm Silver Lake putting up a massive $50 billion to buy out the company. According to The WSJ, if this buyout were to go through, it would go down as the " largest leveraged buyout ever. "

Details on the deal are currently unclear, and of course, we don't necessarily know if it'll go through or not. Large-stakes deals involving Saudi Arabia and its growing interests in the videogame industry have gone under at the last minute for what remain unknown reasons .

It's also not the first time that we've seen the idea of EA changing in ownership getting tossed around, as there were reports of Dis

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