Valve will face that £656m UK lawsuit accusing them of overcharging Steam customers, as tribunal rules it can go ahead

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Valve's lawyers won't be able to file away one of the legal legalings they've been dealing with for a little while now, at least not yet. A tribunal have ruled that the £656m lawsuit brought against the company by digital rights campaigner Vicki Shotbolt and law firm Milberg London LLP last year - the one that could net UK dwellers who've bought stuff on Steam since early June 2018 up to £44 in compensation - can go ahead.

As a result, Valve's Lionel Hutzes will have to face the lawsuit's accusations that the company have used Steam's "dominant position" in the PC market to behave "anti-competitively", with the end result that regular folks are "paying too much for PC games and in-game content and have lesser PC Game platform alternatives".

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