Hi There Gamers and Devs,

On with this week 3 Things newsletter that I came across . I am also in the process of restarting my old gaming blog to share via substack.

🎮 Game News – EA Goes Private for $55 Billion with Investors

📱 Social Post – Nintendo patent Game Dev lose rights to make monster catching games?

🔎 Interesting Finds – Prey 2 Demo Leaks

Lets Go!

🎮Game News

EA SOLD

EA gets sold for 55 Billion while less than the Activision x Blizzard Deal (~$69 Billion). My hope is through change it might result in better game design since it’s going private and not reporting to shareholders.

There is a lot of professional analysts talking about this deal but one 1️⃣ thing they miss is how EA went from software artists to factory 🏭 makers of software.

I do recommend Joseph Kim podcast and Substack that delves into the game making part of the deal and how it’s affected.

I like his analysis of both the buyer and seller side of things and one important thing he mentioned is that gaming today is one of the big mediums in the attention economy (VOD, Social Media, Games). So for Saudi their option left is to get into gaming to transform their economy from oil, as a viable medium for culture.

Key Takeaways via Bloomberg

• Electronic Arts Inc. has agreed to sell itself to a group of investors that includes a firm managed by Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in the largest leveraged buyout on record.

• The deal values the video-game company at about $55 billion, with the investors agreeing to pay $210 per share in cash, a 25% premium to where EA traded before the talks leaked.

• The sale will be funded with cash from the consortium partners, and Saudi Arabia’s PIF will roll over its existing 9.9% stake in the company, bringing the total equity investment of about $36 billion.

Other Analysts on this

Deconstructor of Fun #351

Youtubers:

EA Buyout explained

Bloomberg

🔗 Links: 

Reddit EA Goes Private

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ea-goes-private-in-55b-megadeal-6627476/

Jason Schrier Article

Bloomberg Article

📱Social Post

Nintendo Patent Law on Monster Catching Games

The internet was a buzz last week with the Nintendo patent, on the kinds of games you can make based on popular Pokemon Catching Games and Riding Games.

I do believe this is a response to Palworld Lawsuit to keep things in Nintendo land.

I am not an expert but I tried to find on YT what other analyst think.

My own thought is just make the game but not make it too close to Nintendo style.

🔗Links:

• MinnMax New Show + WB Games Patent

🔎 Interesting Finds

Prey 2 Demo leak again Oh What it could have been

Via Game Dev Relay

I saw that Prey 2 the orignal game idea by Human head and not Arkane got another set of leaks. This time with some of the first game play levels of the Space Bounty Hunter game

I do think its an interesting concept to continue the story but some of the design and gameplay choices were dated back to 2013. So it might not work with this era style of modern gameplay.

Wish it came out.

Old Game Demos

Links:

🔗 PC Gamer Article

[ https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/leaked-prey-2-development-footage-shows-scifi-bounty-hunter-gameplay-that-our-cold-and-uncaring-universe-continues-to-deny-us/ ]

🔗 Reddit

[ https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1n6zcc8/prey_2_development_videos_leaked/ ]

That’s it thanks for reading this far!