The owners of EA could be after another giant of the games industry. A group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has held talks with Unity about a possible acquisition, Reuters reported according to people familiar with the matter, in news picked up by mobilegamer.biz on November 6, 2026. The deal discussed was worth about 25 billion dollars.
Who is involved
- PIF, the Saudi sovereign fund leading the group
- Silver Lake, which already owns about 8% of Unity
Both were part of the consortium that agreed to take Electronic Arts private in a 55 billion dollar deal. PIF’s portfolio already includes Scopely, EA and Moonton, among others.
Why Unity
Unity’s engine is used to build most mobile games, so a deal would strengthen PIF’s position in mobile gaming considerably. The talks reportedly took place before Unity published its third-quarter results on November 5, its first profitable quarter since going public, driven by its Vector advertising platform. Unity’s shares rose sharply after those results.
A busy year for Unity
Earlier in 2026, Unity sold its mobile publishing arm, Supersonic, to Tripledot Studios for 40 million dollars. It has also partnered with Google on Playground, its AI prompt-to-game platform, and is in a legal dispute with AppLovin, which accuses it of collecting data without permission.
Nothing confirmed
No statement from Unity, PIF or Silver Lake has been published, and it is not known whether a formal offer was made or agreed.
This article was written with AI assistance from the sources linked above.
