What does the EA buyout mean for the venerable publisher, and games like EA Sports FC and The Sims, and how will the wider video games industry be affected by this sudden change in direction?

On Monday, it was announced that third party publisher Electronic Arts would be going private, as part of a $55 billion acquisition deal by a consortium of investors comprised of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), private equity firm Silver Lake, and investment firm Affinity Partners (which was founded by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner).

In simple terms, EA will no longer be a publicly traded company, meaning it won’t have to answer to Wall Street, but this creates a lot of questions regarding what sort of impact this will have in the long term.

How will EA change under this new

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