EU fines in the video game market today are the latest reminder that the European Commission is holding its tough line on the interplay of licensing rights and antitrust rules. Today the EU enforcer found that Valve, which operates the Steam gaming platform, and five games publishers — Bandai Namco,
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Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.