EA, Xbox and the state of gaming in 2025

This week, EA introduced that it plans to go non-public as a part of an enormous $55 billion sale, a transfer that can seemingly have large implications for the gaming panorama. On this episode, Devindra and Engadget’s Sam Rutherford chat about what this deal actually means (and why it features a Saudi Arabian funding fund), and in addition dive into the messy state of Xbox. Is the ROG Ally Xbox X already a failure at $1,000?

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Subjects

• Digital Arts to go non-public in a deal value $55 Billion – 1:43

• What the heck is occurring with Xbox? The $1,000 ROG Ally Xbox X may very well be a failure even earlier than launch – 15:23

• Nice video games out now: Last Fantasy Techniques, Hole Knight: Silksong, Hades II and extra – 42:46

• Amazon’s fall {hardware} occasion introduced new Echoes, a brand new Hearth TV and a panopticon powered by Ring – 59:10

• Google broadcasts new Nest Doorbell together with a few Nest Cams – 1:09:34

• Hollywood movie stars recoil in disgust at Tilly Norwood, an AI actress created by a Dutch manufacturing studio –1:14:30

• OpenAI’s Sora video app is filled with pretend shoplifting clips – 1:14:13

• Popular culture picks – 1:19:01

Credit

Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Sam Rutherford
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O’Brien