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.

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. There was a time when every major publisher decided that its PC releases would require signing into and using a custom launcher, which would still be ...

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 ...

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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 Take-Two Interactive has unpublished the 2K Launcher.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: ...

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A new launcher for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader was so unbelievably unpopular that developer Owlcat just killed it ...

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 ...

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 ...