Saudi bosses are considering merging Savvy and EA to create a new gaming supergroup, says Bloomberg

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is considering bringing EA and Savvy together to create one giant gaming supergroup, according to Bloomberg.

No final decision will be made on the move until Savvy completes its $6bn acquisition of Mobile Legends Bang Bang maker Moonton, the report says.

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund controls Savvy Games Group, which acquired Monopoly Go maker Scopely for $4.9bn in 2023. Savvy then helped Scopely acquire Niantic’s games portfolio for $3.5bn in 2025, bringing the likes of Pokémon Go, Monster Hunter Now and Pikmin Bloom into Saudi ownership.

Later that same year, a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund acquired Electronic Arts, maker of EA FC, Madden, The Sims and Apex Legends, for $55bn. The deal took the company private and into PIF’s portfolio. Savvy also owns esports outfit ESL Faceit Group, and invested $1bn in Embracer in 2022.

More recently, Bloomberg reported that Savvy could acquire Mobile Legends Bang Bang maker Moonton for $6bn, though that deal has yet to be completed. Today’s report suggests that the potential new Scopely-EA-Moonton supergroup would only come together once the deal for the latter is complete.

Bloomberg’s report notes that though strong in PC and console, EA’s perceived weakness in the mobile market could be rectified by working more closely with the likes of Scopely and Niantic Games, now known as Scopely Explore.

As we previously reported, a senior EA staffer we spoke to shortly after the deal was announced suggested that the go-private deal was partly motivated by EA’s weakness in the lucrative mobile games market, which reaches more players worldwide and generates over half the value in the games market overall.

Last week, Bloomberg also broke the news that Savvy Games Group boss Brian Ward would be stepping down.