{"id":10197,"date":"2022-05-11T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/lawsuit-claiming-steam-gives-valve-too-much-power-is-moving-forward-after-all\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:30:00","slug":"lawsuit-claiming-steam-gives-valve-too-much-power-is-moving-forward-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/lawsuit-claiming-steam-gives-valve-too-much-power-is-moving-forward-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Claiming Steam Gives Valve Too Much Power Is Moving Forward After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A U.S. district judge has decided that an antitrust lawsuit against Valve over how it operates and uses the Steam platform can move forward. The company suing Valve, Wolfire Games, alleges that the <em>Half-Life <\/em>and <em>Portal <\/em>developer uses its digital storefront and its huge amount of control over the PC gaming market to\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/valve-steam-antitrust-lawsuit-wolfire-games-us-court-1848912204\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. district judge has decided that an antitrust lawsuit against Valve over how it operates and uses the Steam platform can move forward. 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