Released this week as a Windows exclusive, with no word so far on alternative platform support, the Rockstar Games Launcher does exactly what it says on the tin: Allows players to download and launch a range of Rockstar Games titles, complete with cloud save support and automatically-provided updates. Now, in what may prove to be an ill-timed launch, Rockstar Games has announced it is getting into the act with its own digital distribution platform dubbed the Rockstar Games Launcher. This fragmentation is most obvious in the need to now run multiple launchers on a single system: One for games available on Steam, and one for games available on the Epic Games Store.

The launch of the Epic Games Store back in December 2018 shook the market up in a way that various third-party alternative services and publisher own-brand platforms had not, largely thanks to an aggressive marketing approach which has included both a steady stream of free games and million-dollar timed exclusivity deals on some of the biggest titles around.Ĭritics of the Epic Games Store, though, argue - with or without merit, depending on personal opinion - that Epic's approach fragments the gaming ecosystem in a way Steam never really did.

Valve's Steam platform has, for many a year now, ruled the PC gaming distribution roost.

Building on the wave of ill-feeling that followed Epic Games' decision to launch its own games store and launcher, Rockstar Games has decided to join the fray with the release of the Rockstar Games Launcher - and, like Epic, is tempting gamers with the promise of free stuff it they use it.

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