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 ...

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 ...

The 2K Launcher has been removed from every game that had used it on the Epic Games Store and Steam, according to a support page for the launcher that 2K updated this week. Some of the affected games ...

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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 ...