Gaming giant Electronic Arts acquired for $55bn
Electronic Arts has accepted a $55 billion acquisition offer, marking it one of the largest take-private deals ever reported.
The consortium behind the purchase of one of the world’s best known gaming companies includes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners.
EA warns that most Madden NFL 23 save files corrupted by 'data storage issue' are lost forever
Players of Madden NFL 23 have had a poor start to the year. Over the festive period, game producer EA confirmed that users were "experiencing connection issues when trying to connect to CFM" (Connected Franchise Mode). The company put its game servers into maintenance mode while it addressed the issues and things started to go wrong when they came back on.
Many gamers who logged into their accounts between December 28 and 29 were hit by what EA has described as a "data storage issue". These problems resulted in the corruption of franchise save data, and the latest news from EA is bad.