Amazon buys EA: This rumor triggered the company’s shares in the stock market

While the company’s actions have been altered, CNBC sources assure that no offers have come from Amazon.

Update: While networks have been on fire with the latest information prompting changes in EA’s actions, CNBC sources confirm: Amazon did not offer any To buy the EA now. Thanks to this, the developer’s share price returned to the levels before the rumor spread.

In the process of ‘games’ industry consolidation, large companies in the industry are expanding their control. Embrace, PlayStation, Tencent and Xbox as the protagonists of most of the operations. But in the last few hours, the incoming information speaks of strong interest. Amazon To become a major player in the industry. Specifically, he’s talking about An upcoming EA acquisition announcement.

As posted, announcement of Electronic Arts acquisition by company founded by Jeff Bezos can come as soon as possible today. No details about the operation have been revealed at this time, but considering the business that EA moves into every year, it is expected to talk about very high numbers with successful franchises like FIFA (EA Sports FC). Apex Legends and one longer etc.

EA shares skyrocket in minutes and before April Wall StreetThe news was developed by GLHF.gg, a news agency focused on video game content, and although not verified by any other prestigious media, it was shared by national newspapers in the United States such as USA Today and others. important media in the video game industry. In addition, as an indicator of confidence in the accuracy of the news, EA stock price rose 18.20% Hours before trading begins on Wall Street.

Again, rumors started popping up months before this ‘scoop’. In that sense, we learned in May that EA nearly merged with NBCUniversal in the spring, a disappointing deal that Amazon itself mentioned, which didn’t discourage Electronic Arts’ senior executives from looking for other big companies.

For now, we just have to wait. If GLHF.gg is correct, we’ll have a statement in a few hours that joins the other big acquisitions announced this year from Amazon. That’s why we learned earlier in the course that Activision-Blizzard was bought by Microsoft, which was pending closure, whereas PlayStation took the reins of Bungie, just to name the two most important operations.