Microsoft’s $10 billion ($US7.5 billion) billion purchase of Zenimax Media — the parent company of Bethesda, owners of the Fallout, The Elder Scrolls and Doom series — has been approved by both the European Commission and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions.
The EU have fined Valve and five publishers a total of €7.8 million ($12.3 million) over their practice of “geo-blocking” PC game sales on Steam, which basically means forcing users in a country (say, Germany) to only pay the German price for a game, instead of letting them buy a…