Who's even still playing GTA V singleplayer these days? Ah, I do still sometimes like to fire it up and just cruise around, drive through the city at night, take a stroll, mess with some citizens, find a pretty swimming spot in the wilds, maybe steal a sensible family car for some xtreme off-roading.

You'll likely need to install the Launcher anyway if you ever have GTA V update on Steam. Rockstar are currently giving away GTA: San Andreas free for installing the launcher. After that, you should be able to go offline and play in a cave. You'll need to go online to update the Launcher as well as GTA V, then run them both. Having recognised the problem and said they were working on it on Tuesday, Rockstar have now issued a fix. And some technical hiccup meant that it was blocking people from playing the open-world murder simulator offline. Anyway, while the Launcher has little purpose at presence, it is now required to launch Grand Theft Auto V (yes, on Steam too). It's a new store/client/updater doodad of their own which could be read as a portent that they're thinking about launching some big new game on PC away from Steam. Rockstar launched their Launcher on Tuesday.

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