European Commission demands Valve stop geo-blocking games inside the EU

The European Commission (EC) has been looking into how PC video games are bought and sold within EU Member States, and it doesn’t like what it’s seen. Issuing an official statement of objections today, directed at Valve, whose Steam online portal is the biggest store for PC games in the world, and five game publishers the Commission takes the view that they’ve all engaged in antitrust violations by putting geographic restrictions on the games they sell.

Source: European Commission demands Valve stop geo-blocking games inside the EU

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