Well look at that. Rockstar Games is giving San Andreas for free, for everybody that starts using their new desktop app called Rockstar Games Launcher. What is it? It’s kinda’ like the former Social Club app from back in the day of Max Payne 3 and GTA 4. The most important feature is the store part as you can actually purchase most of their know titles from inside the app. Nothing more, nothing less, Rockstars version of Epic Store or Battle.Net.

I’m guessing this has become a trend, each major studio makes their own client with a shop. Not great, not terrible, i’m just here for the free game. You can also use the launcher to scan your computer for other Rockstar titles that you have installed and add them forever in your library. Kind of neat that i won’t have to always depend on Steam or physical media to reinstall. If i install selected titles they will appear in my library but if i uninstall them, they’re gone. Hope in the future they will permanently stay there. They also talk about cloud saves, which is awesome. I still have all of my saves on Dropbox, just saying. I wouldn’t expect a whole lot from the Launcher app, at least not in the short run. It’s just another place for all your already purchased Rockstar titles. I’d like to believe we’d get newer titles and content much cheaper that on any other distribution platform. Well, what are you doing?

Download now and get a bonus FREE copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PC for a limited time.

“All you had to do is press the damn Download button, CJ” – Big Smoke