EA is reportedly pursuing acquisition and merger options with “a number of potential suitors”

Electronic Arts is reportedly pursuing acquisition and merger opportunities with “a number of different potential suitors”.

That’s according to Puck (£), which yesterday revealed that EA has been “persistent in pursuing a sale” with a number of companies, including Amazon, Apple, Disney, and NBCUniversal, “emboldened in the wake of the Microsoft-Activision deal“.

“In recent years, as media companies have taken greater interest in the rapidly growing gaming industry, [CEO Andrew Wilson] and Electronic Arts have held talks with a number of different potential suitors, including Disney, Apple and Amazon, sources with knowledge of those talks told me,” Puck reporter, Dylan Byers, wrote.

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