Valve and five PC games publishers fined $9.4M for illegal geo-blocking

Post date: 2021-01-21 02:08:46
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A four-year antitrust investigation into PC games geo-blocking in the European Union by distribution platform Valve and five games publishers has led to fines totalling €7.8 million (~$9.4M) after the Commission confirmed today that the bloc’s rules had been breached. The geo-blocking practices investigated since 2017 concerned around 100 PC video games of different genres,
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