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Legal November 29

2021 lawsuit against Steam’s 30% cut and its alleged antitrust behavior now classified as class action

A long-running lawsuit against Steam’s 30% cut and its alleged antitrust behavior has been granted a class action status. The plaintiffs are now calling on other game developers to join in.

Industry News March 14

Tim Sweeney unleashes most Sweeney-esque tirade against Valve over Steam’s 30% cut in newly released 2018 emails

Some of you may remember an antitrust lawsuit against Valve filed by Wolfire Games back in 2021. The court case recently entered a new phase, revealing some internal data, including never-before-seen emails from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney.

Game Development April 22, 2022

Wolfire turns Overgrowth into open source game, making it free for modding and changing

Wolfire Games has made Overgrowth an open source project. What it means is that everyone who owns the game will be able to access its code and freely work with it for any purpose.

Industry News April 29, 2021

Another Steam class-action lawsuit describes Valve as monopoly

Developer Wolfire Games filed an antitrust class-action lawsuit against Valve claiming that Steam has usurped around 75 percent of all PC games spending.