{"id":81352,"date":"2026-08-23T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/81352\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:44:09","slug":"why-saudi-arabia-is-spending-billions-to-become-a-global-esports-power-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/81352\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Saudi Arabia is spending billions to become a global Esports power? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Why Saudi Arabia is spending billions to become a global Esports power? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VY-PYsvmogU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhy Saudi Arabia is spending billions to become a global Esports power? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia is betting big on the global gaming industry. It&#8217;s already gobbled up Electronic Arts in a $55 billion deal and the flagship Esports World Cup is now being held outside the country &#8212; in Paris &#8212; for the first time. This is part of efforts to diversify away from its oil and gas driven economy.<br \/>\n#SaudiArabia #Esports #gaming<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Saudi Arabia is spending billions to become a global Esports power? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English Saudi Arabia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[66242,18730,66243,50,22,23,20,21,2515,17628,5935,77,70,2879,14504,4238],"class_list":["post-81352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-ea-sports","tag-economic","tag-electronic-arts","tag-france","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-gaming","tag-industry","tag-internet","tag-paris","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sports","tag-strategy","tag-video-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117144532217935471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}