Saudi Arabia owns EA. Reuters reports Unity is next
Saudi Arabia now owns EA, and a Reuters report names Unity as the next target. Buying a publisher and buying the engine other studios build on are two different kinds of power.
Saudi Arabia owns EA. Reuters reports that Unity is next, and PC Gamer set out both facts on 6 November 2026. The two sit at different levels of the same industry, which is what makes the second one worth a closer look.
A catalogue is not a toolchain
EA is a catalogue: studios, franchises, release dates. Unity is a licence that other people's studios depend on to build their own games. Owning the first gives you a slate; owning the second gives you a say in how everyone else's slate gets made.
The recent Unity-made games named in the reporting — Big Walk, Endless Legend 2, Agent 64: Spies Never Die — are modest, varied projects rather than flagship blockbusters. That is the shape of the engine's constituency: a large number of small and mid-sized teams, each with little individual leverage. None of them get a vote on who holds the licence.
Nothing in the reporting describes what new ownership would mean for licensing terms, pricing or the editor's roadmap. Those are the first questions any studio asks, and for now there are no answers.