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The 2K Launcher Is No More — You Can Now Launch 2K’s PC Games Directly in Steam

2K Games has pulled its launcher from all its PC games as part of a “complete sunset” of the software, which means PC gamers can now launch all 2K games directly in Steam. The 2K Launcher was forced ...
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The 2K Launcher is Gone

2K Games has officially removed its launcher from all PC games. Users cited performance issues and lack of mod support as to ...
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Take-Two Has Taken Away The 2K Launcher, To The Benefit Of All Their Games

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 Take-Two Interactive has unpublished the 2K Launcher.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: ...
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2K removes its pointless launcher from Civilization 6, while also announcing that Civilization 7 players will never have to suffer launching the game twice for no reason

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Anyway, it seems someone at 2K finally woke up and smelled the futility. In a "quick update" ...
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2K Removes Its launcher From All PC Games - News

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 ...
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You’ll never have to use the 2K Launcher for Steam games again

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 ...
PC Gamer

We just beat a PC gaming villain: 2K removes its pointless, game-breaking launcher from its entire catalogue

Looking at you, Ubisoft and EA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Remember the 2K Launcher, the completely pointless bit of ...
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Civilization 6 Removes Unpopular Feature

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...
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2K Games Has Officially Ditched Its PC Launcher

Borderlands and Civilization publisher 2K Games has quietly done something very cool and good: The company has removed the need to use its 2K PC launcher from all of its games, and sunset the software ...
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The 2K Launcher is Gone

Richard is a writer and game designer living in New York City. 2K Games has officially removed its launcher from all PC games. Users cited performance issues and lack of mod support as to why the ...
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2K Games removes its launcher from all of its PC games on Steam and Epic

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 ...