EA has gone private, as the veteran video game company was sold for an eye-watering sum of $55 billion to an investor consortium made up of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, and the private equity firm Silver Lake. The deal officially closed on August 4, 2026. A privately owned EA could be a very different company when compared to its public incarnation, and it will also have to work off $20 billion of new debt that…