For publishers, they're a way to tighten control and sell you stuff. For us they're a pain in the ass. Sports There was once a golden age of PC gaming where you could open up Steam (or even just ...

Over the last decade many of the biggest video game publishers (and some smaller ones too!) have decided that we can’t just launch our PC games straight from Steam or the desktop. Instead, we need to ...

Windows Touch Remix is a program launcher for netbooks or laptops running Windows. It’s designed to look and work much like the ume-launcher that comes with Ubuntu Netbook Remix or the easy mode ...

The Start menu on Windows 11 is far from the most efficient way to launch apps, so why not use an open-source alternative instead?

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 ...

OS has some popular apps that are exclusive to the ecosystem. Raycast, a popular quick launcher, is one such app, but it's now available for Windows as well. I currently use Listary as my main file ...

You can use PowerToys Run to launch apps, find files, perform calculations, browse the web, navigate the registry, and many more. It is a great utility and a must-have replacement for Windows 11's ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, Steam killed support for Windows 7 and Windows 8, meaning the Steam Client on these systems would no longer get updates and security updates. Now, it seems that Rockstar is ...

Follow the procedure in this post to verify the integrity of the game files on Steam, Epic, GOG Galaxy, Ubisoft Connect, Origin, Battle.net, and Rockstar Games Launcher on your Windows PC. Game files ...

The addition of BattlEye anti-cheat to GTA Online delivered a little more than expected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We ...

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, ...