European Union antitrust bodies just fine PC game giant Valve to restrict cross-border sales on Steam: Worldnews

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Among the publishers are Japanese game giants Bandai Namco and Capcom, and US ZeniMax – which owns popular game studio Bethesda Softworks – French developer Focus Home and German group Koch Media.

“Today’s sanctions against Valve’s ‘geoblocking’ practices and five PC video game publishers are a reminder that under EU competition law, companies are contractually prohibited from restricting cross-border sales,” EU Competition Commissioner Margaret Festeger said in a statement. . .

According to the European Union, Valve has allowed five notable computer game publishers to distribute geo-blocked game codes for their Steam distribution platform.

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