Game Pass Shake-Up and EA’s $55B Buyout S6E35

This week on the M2 Podcast, we dive into some of the biggest gaming and tech shake-ups making headlines. EA is set to go private in a massive $55 billion buyout backed by Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, raising questions about the future of franchises like Madden and Battlefield. We also explore Apple’s quirky new AirPods-controlled game, RidePods, which turns your head movements into a motorcycle racing controller. On top of that, Microsoft has restructured its Xbox Game Pass tiers, hiking Ultimate to $29.99 while expanding libraries, perks, and cloud access across all plans. Whether it’s corporate power moves, creative new tech experiments, or the ongoing subscription wars, this episode covers how gaming is rapidly changing on every front.

0:00 Intro
0:49 Update
15:19 $55 billion EA buyout hands Madden over to investors including Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner https://tinyurl.com/4fa9crnx
24:36 RidePods is the first iPhone game you control with AirPods https://tinyurl.com/4hvzbkr2
39:20 Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month https://tinyurl.com/ynsxwf9v
1:15:43 Outro

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