Valve Ordered to Give Apple Information on 436 Steam Games As Part of Epic Games Legal Case
Thursday February 25, 2021 12:50 am PST by Sami Fathi
Valve, the makers behind popular game distribution platform Steam, will be forced to hand over aggregate historical sales, price, and other information on 436 games hosted on the store to Apple, as part of the Apple vs. Epic Games antitrust case.
As reported in a paywalled report by
Law360, during a virtual discovery hearing on Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson ordered that Apple s subpoena for the data to Valve was valid, however, noted that Apple has salted the earth with subpoenas, telling Valve don’t worry, it’s not just you. Apple s original subpoena requested data from Valve about Steam dating as far back as 2015, the judge s ruling however will only require Valve to produce data limited to as early as 2017.
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Feb 9, 2021 00:34 EST with 13 comments
Valve s Steam platform and Sony s PlayStation 5 console have finally made their debut in China. With regards to the former, Chinese users had been utilizing the international version of the client, but the government could essentially shut down access to it without any warning. Similarly, the PlayStation 5 was not officially available in the region and was primarily being imported from overseas. Both of these things are changing soon.
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