UPDATE: "This is not going to hap today."

UPDATE 1.40pm UK: US web CNBC has unopen down a study by USA Today that stated Amazon was acceptable to marque an imminent takeover bid for FIFA shaper EA.

Speaking unrecorded connected aerial successful the past fewer minutes, expert and co-anchor David Faber said: "I've talked to immoderate radical who would really cognize if determination was thing going on, and they accidental there's thing going on. These are radical who would beryllium involved, who successful information were progressive erstwhile our genitor institution was talking to Electronic Arts."

A clip of the conception lies below:

"EA has decidedly been retired determination successful the past a bit, considering what it mightiness do, you could ideate Amazon mightiness person immoderate interest..." Faber continued. "But no, this is not going to hap today, from what I'm hearing, unless the radical who had been progressive antecedently person nary idea."

This morning's earlier study concisely acceptable EA's banal terms soaring.

Faber's update connected today's study besides included item of a past bid for EA by NBCUniversal, which yet fell through.

Earlier today, an EA spokesperson told Eurogamer the institution did not remark "on rumors and speculation relating to M&A [mergers and acquisitions]".

ORGINAL STORY 12.50pm UK: Online retail elephantine Amazon is acceptable to denote an connection to bargain FIFA steadfast EA, a caller study has claimed.

USA Today sources authorities that Amazon volition formally denote its connection aboriginal today. There's nary item yet connected however overmuch it volition bid.

EA has precocious been the taxable of respective takeover rumours, with Apple and Disney besides claimed to beryllium among different funny parties.

USA Today's study claims Amazon whitethorn beryllium looking to usage EA franchises specified arsenic Dead Space, oregon BioWare's Mass Effect and Dragon Age, arsenic settings for caller Amazon-made TV series.

"We don't remark connected rumors and speculation relating to M&A [mergers and acquistions]," an EA spokesperson confirmed to Eurogamer today.

2022 has been a historical twelvemonth for mergers and acquistions successful the video crippled industry, with Microsoft's still-in-the-works program to bargain Activision Blizzard for astir $70bn, Sony gobbling up Bungie for $3.6bn, and Take-Two purchasing Zynga for $12.2bn.

Electronic Arts has 12,900 employees worldwide crossed dozens of improvement studios, and is location to franchises specified arsenic Battlefield, Need for Speed, Dead Space and The Sims, arsenic good arsenic FIFA, Madden and NFL games via its EA Sports label.

Among the studios it owns are BioWare, location to Dragon Age and Mass Effect, and Respawn, shaper of Apex Legends and Titanfall.