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 ...

Epic Game Store is getting faster load times, avatars, and more this year ...

Epic Games has admitted its PC launcher needs major work, with the Vice President admitting “the launcher sucks” in an interview.

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

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 ...

Steven Allison, the Epic Games Store's vice president and general manager, conceded that the launcher boots and responds to user input more sluggishly than Steam. To ...

In this post, we will show you how to get past the Please wait while we start your update screen when opening Epic Games Launcher. As reported by some users, whenever they start Epic Games Launcher, ...

The Epic Games Store's year in review breakdown shows some decent growth, but it's the future improvements that are even more ...

Epic Games is undoubtedly one of the most popular game launchers in the market. However, as of late, many users reported that they are unable to launch the launcher, and in some cases, Epic Games does ...

Greetings goobers, goblins and gamers, welcome back to the PC Gamer Chat Log podcast! How's your week been so far? I am writing this from ~the past~ as I'm actually out of the office this week, ...

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