Valve responds to European complaints about Steam geo-locking

Having been slapped with antitrust accusations by the European Commission, Valve has responded to complaints about geo-blocking on its Steam gaming platform. After the Commission complained that Valve and five game publishers had come to arrangements between themselves to region-lock certain titles, the company says that only a very small portion of games available on the platform are subject to geo-locking. See also: Europe hits out at Valve for geo-blocking Steam games Europe hits Google with €1.49 billion fine for breaking antitrust law with AdSense restrictions Apple is going to educate the US and Europe on how to avoid fake… [Continue Reading]