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Telcos, Media & Tech

Nintendo aims to make 25 million Switch 2 units by end of March

All of the games in this first offering are free.
Lifestyle

Netflix brings video games to its TV service for first time

Nintendo's Singapore unit will have a capital stock of S$8 million, with Takahiro Miura set to be its managing director.
Companies & Markets

Nintendo establishes Singapore unit to accelerate South-east Asia business

Signage outside Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) offices in Austin, Texas, US, on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. Electronic Arts Inc. agreed to sell itself to Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and a pair of private equity firms in a deal that values the company at about $55 billion, marking the largest leveraged buyout on record. Photographer: Kaylee Greenlee/Bloomberg
Banking & Finance

JPMorgan’s US$20 billion EA deal marks win over private credit

EA, the maker of EA Sports FC and The Sims, is selling amid sluggish growth for the US$178 billion video game industry.
Companies & Markets

EA agrees to US$55 billion sale in largest leveraged buyout on record

Electronic Arts generated nearly 75 per cent of fiscal 2025 sales from live-service revenue rather than new purchases.
Companies & Markets

Electronic Arts buyout talk highlights video game struggles as growth slows

Earlier this year, Electronic Arts cut hundreds of staff, its third mass layoff since 2023.
Companies & Markets

Electronic Arts nears takeover by Silver Lake, PIF

The first-person shooter series 'Call of Duty' is one of the world’s best-selling games franchises, having sold 500 million copies.
Lifestyle

Paramount to make live-action ‘Call of Duty’ movie

Sea’s collaboration with Japanese anime Naruto Shippuden is credited with helping drive user attention to a game that was first released in late 2017.
Lifestyle

Sea’s ‘Free Fire’ becomes highest-earning mobile shooting game in US

Selling itself as the option for discerning, hardcore gamers, Microsoft’s Xbox ROG Ally console is available to try for the hundreds of thousands of visitors at the Gamescom trade show in Cologne, Germany.
Lifestyle

Microsoft re-joins handheld gaming fight against Nintendo’s Switch

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