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Jared Kushner Partners With Saudis to Buy Bay Area-Based Game-Maker Electronic Arts

Redwood City-based Electronic Arts could be taken private in a $55 billion deal announced Monday that's backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, and private equity firm Silver Lake.

Arts & Entertainment

Nicolas Cage Cast to Star In Biopic About… John Madden?

Boom! Amazon’s new movie about the life of former Raiders coach, football announcer, and video-game namesake John Madden has cast none other than the prolifically over-acting Nicolas Cage to star in the title role.

Bay Area Sports

Colin Kaepernick is Back in the NFL — Virtually — in ‘Madden NFL’ Video Game

Well, kiss my biceps! Blackballed NFL star Colin Kaepernick is included in this year’s update to the popular ‘Madden NFL’ franchise, and you can play him for any team.

SF News

Redwood City's Electronic Arts Slashes 1,500 Jobs

Someone on the contribute page chided us about not covering this story, so here you go, folks: Redwood City's Electronic Arts, creator of such awesomeness as SimCity, The Sims, and Rock

SF News

What Happened With That?

We know you're totally dying to find out what happened with some of the stories we told you about from San Mateo County a week or so ago. Dying! Who won

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Hot Enough For Ya?

What is it with geeks and spicy food? RSA, the computer security company, and Electronic Arts are engaged in a friendly eat-off competition at the Prince of Wales pub in San Mateo

SF News

Happy May Day

It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to

SF News

EA no Mea Culpa

So now that the Electronic Arts tale of discontent has splashed the pages of both the Mercury News and the Times (Lord, don't local reporters hate it when nationals scoop '

SF News

The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City -- Update

And the saga continues. Electronic Arts seems to have pissed off one too many geeks, and now that this story has gone public details are beginning to emerge that don't look

SF News

Touchdown!

SFist is not the biggest football fan in the world, but we definitely love video games. And while many have tried, nobody is taking John Madden Football's spot in the starting