Valve to fight EU antitrust charges, 5 videogame publishers to settle - sources

Bandai Namco Holdings

29/08/2019 17:50

BRUSSELS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Valve Corp, owner of the
world's largest video game distribution platform "Steam", plans
to fight EU antitrust charges of preventing cross-border trade,
unlike five video game publishers which plan to settle the case,
people familiar with the matter said.
    Valve and video game makers Bandai Namco  7832.T , Capcom
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ZeniMax have been the target of a European Commission
investigation since 2017.
    The EU competition enforcer in April charged the six
companies with preventing EU consumers from shopping around for
the best video game deals within the 28-country bloc.

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