TL;DR: 2K Games has removed its launcher from all games on Epic and Steam, allowing direct play without additional software. This change affects titles like Bioshock and Civilization, with no impact ...

2K Games has officially removed its launcher from all PC games. Users cited performance issues and lack of mod support as to why the launcher was inconvenient. Players can now access 2K games directly ...

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Mods, Linux support, they’re all back. Take-Two Interactive has unpublished the 2K Launcher. In an updated entry on the official 2K Support website, they have updated the page with this announcement: ...

Among all the unnecessary PC game launchers forced on us over the years, 2K Games’ version easily ranked among the very worst – when it was not clunky or broken all by itself, it always found ways to ...

As part of a growing trend among publishers, 2K Games has removed its launcher from “every game that used it” on Steam and Epic. 2K announced the change on a support page last month, and the launcher ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

Firaxis Games has removed the often-skipped 2K Launcher from its 4X strategy game Civilization VI. The studio has also confirmed that the next entry in the franchise will not feature the launcher.

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launcher, from Sid Meier’s Civilization V. "On November 25, a follow-up update was sent out via Steam to make sure the 2K Launcher was fully removed. You may notice the 2KLauncher folder was replaced ...