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The Saudi Arabia-based Qiddiya Investment Company have announced that they will be constructing the World’s only ever Dragon Ball theme park as part of their "Qiddiya" giga project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Dragon Ball theme park is planned to be over 500,000 square meters and features seven different areas that recreate various iconic loca...
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is set to be a featured competitive title at the Esports World Cup, with the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid Season Cup (MSC) and the MLBB Women's Invitational (MWI) expanding their reach beyond Southeast Asia to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. This move is a first for these events. Boasting over 1.46 billion install...
The culminating day of the Overwatch World Cup 2023 was an absolute spectacle, with a nail-biting series that stretched to five intense maps each. In a thrilling grand final showdown, China, after a gripping face-off, secured second place following an unexpected turn, granting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the title of champions. Emerging victorio...
Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, the highly-acclaimed international animated film, has been pulled from the Middle East release schedule, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and several other Middle Eastern countries. The sequel to the 2018 film, Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse was scheduled to debut on 22 June across t...
Hats off to Square Enix for not changing up its Final Fantasy game for one country that doesn't share its ideals. The upcoming Final Fantasy 16 for PlayStation 5 will be coming out for all countries save for one: Saudi Arabia. This is according to an official ratings board update by the country's General Commission for Audiovisual Media (via Vid...
The Big N is having small parts of it being owned by the Kingdom. A Reuters report states that the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, chaired by crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, now has 6.07% stake in Nintendo, making the Kingdom one of the largest shareholders in the Japanese company. Previously, they owned 5.01%. Nintendo has yet to comm...
A new report has claimed that the World Wrestling Entertainment AKA the WWE has been sold to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. According to Steven Muehlhausen of DAZN Wrestling, as a result of this alleged acquisition, the WWE "will go back to being private" for the first time since it originally became a publicly traded company back in Octobe...
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which is the country's bottomless pit of money used to diversify into sectors beyond oil, has a new acquisition in place: a small chunk of the Big N. Saudi Arabia now has 5.01% stake in Nintendo according to a Bloomberg report that detailed a recent Japanese Finance Ministry filing. Other companies with som...
The censorship board of Saudi Arabaia wants Disney to cut the LGBTQ references from the upcoming film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness/Doctor Strange 2. The studio and Marvel by extension has refused to do so, at this point in time. A report from Agence France-Presse (via The Guardian) said that Saudi Arabia's general supervisor of ci...
The company that made The King of Fighters XV and other classic 2D action and fighting games is pretty much fully owned by Saudi Arabian royalty. In late 2020, the company known as Electronic Gaming Development Company (EGDC), that is owned by Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, previously purchased a 33% stake and became SNK's larges...
Not one to be left out of the big software companies buying other big game-making companies spiel, the country of Saudi Arabia wants in on the action. First with SNK (via Mohammed bin Salman) and ESL, and now with Capcom and Nexon. The country has invested US$1 billion and own 5% of Capcom and Nexon. Basically, about US$332 million went to Capco...
The ESL, one of the world's biggest and oldest esports companies, has been bought by Savvy Gaming, an esports investment company backed by the Saudi Arabian Government's Public Investment Fund (via Handellsblatt). For how much, you may ask? A humongous US$1 billion if you didn't catch the headline. Money has never been an issue for the Public In...
Saudi Arabia, not content with buying a 1/3rd stake in SNK for future King of Fighters games, has utilized its Public Investment Fund to invest over US$3.3 billion in the world's biggest video game companies. They are Electronic Arts (EA), Take-Two Interactive, and Activision Blizzard. This move was orchestrated by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bi...
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