Enlarge (credit: Getty / Aurich Lawson) Last November, Western District of Washington Judge John Coughenour sided with Valve in dismissing a Steam antitrust legal action that had been filed by indie developer (and Humble Bundle creator) Wolfire Games . Now, that same judge is showing new respect for Wolfire’s arguments, allowing parts of an amended […]
(credit: Aurich Lawson) A federal judge has accepted Valve’s motion to dismiss an anti-trust lawsuit against company Steam’s store and platform, saying that plaintiff Wolfire Games failed to establish the basic facts necessary to sustain the case going forward. Wolfire’s lawsuit in part rested on the argument that Valve was illegally tying its Steam game […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty / Aurich Lawson) Valve has issued a scathing response to Wolfire’s April lawsuit alleging anticompetitive monopoly practices on the Steam storefront . In that response, Valve argues that the suit should be dismissed because it “fails to allege the most basic elements of an antitrust case. ” There’s no right to free […]
Enlarge / The Valve logo, as seen in an etched design at its offices. Indie developer (and Humble Indie Bundle originator Wolfire Games has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Steam creator Valve, saying that the company is wielding Steam’s monopoly power over the PC gaming market to extract “an extraordinarily high cut from nearly […]