Mozilla is already trying to backtrack on Firefox's controversial data privacy update, but it might be too little, too late - Related to hates, exoborne, update,, is, steam

Exoborne playtesters jumped into over 500,000 matches and made over $7 billion in in-game loot in less than a week

Exoborne, the third-person extraction shooter from Sharkmob, has just released a bunch of stats from its closed playtest. It turns out that players went wild on it over the five days it was available, clocking over 500,000 matches and extracting with over $7 billion in loot.

Now that's a lot of games, and a lot of candlesticks, seeds, and jewelry brought home. But there's more! , we saw over 7 million eliminated NPCs, 151,718 players taken out, and nearly half a million successful extractions. Not too shabby at all.

Those who played the play test were able to unlock two cosmetics for the full game for playing with friends, which is a nice little bonus, but aside from that all progress will of course be wiped for future play tests (if there are any) and the full release. So, if you missed out, don't feel too bad about it.

Exoborne is the next big effort from Sharkmob, who previously released the ill-fated Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodhunt. Now, that game was pretty darn good in my opinion, but failed to maintain momentum from its decent launch, sadly fluttering out and eventually having its servers shut down. Exoborne, with a more substantial selection of story content to play through and fitting into a more mainstream genre is a clear attempt to remedy past troubles.

Exoborne is now going under the radar for a while, though there are still a selection of in-game rewards players can earn in the full release on their website. You'll have to do stuff like follow its social media accounts, join the Discord, and so on. But, having played the game myself a bit, I absolutely recommend keeping this game on your radar.

A demo for the upcoming mecha PvP shooter, Mecha Break, has soared up the Steam charts, and it's not even out yet. An open beta / demo, which was rele......

Presidents' Day brings a wave of discounts on gaming laptops, desktops, and more, making it a great time to upgrade or invest in a new machine. Whethe......

We all know The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is a terrifying game, but apparently one of its lead developers didn't at the time of making it.

Steam Next Fest's most-played demo is a game almost everybody hates

Steam Next Fest can be a hectic time. While some of the demos will remain after the week-long Festival of Nextival is over, many do not. You need to find time to squeeze everything in—especially if you want to get in on a multiplayer beta of strictly limited duration—even if one of the biggest games of the year happens to be launching right in the middle of it.

There are usually three Next Fests per year, in February, June, and October, and 2025's first is wrapping up at 10 am PT on March 3. Based on Steam's own ranking of the top demos, organized by daily user count, we can see that multiplayer robot rumpus Mecha Break is number one and has been consistently for days. Which is interesting, given that it's currently got a user rating of Mostly Negative, with only 34% of the user reviews having nice things to say.

This cross between Armored Core and a hero shooter is appealing to fans of Gundams and jiggle physics, but those reviews do contain a lot of complaints about its lengthy tutorial, live-service cruft, and aggressive monetization. And yet, in spite of all the negativity, it's stayed in the number one spot while other demos have risen and fallen.

Gothic 1 Remake was in the number two spot for a while, but fell off as people gave up on its clunky movement and edgelord fantasy vibe. Right now the number two position is being held by Among Us 3D, which takes the VR version of the beloved Werewolf-like and lets players experience it flat-style. It comes with proximity voice chat built in, so you won't have to join a Discord server, and the full release will have cross-compatibility with the VR version.

RoadCraft, a game of roadbuilding and logistics for the Snowrunner sickos, is sitting in third place, while Fellowship, which lets you play what are basically World of Warcraft dungeon runs without having to actually play World of Warcraft, has dropped back to fourth after spending some time in second place.

Rounding out the current top five is Haste: Broken Worlds, a third-person physics-defying sprinting game that looks like what the Sonic the Hedgehog series might have evolved into if its fans didn't keep dragging it back into 2D. Harvey Randall called it "a game about strategic falling" and revealed, "The trick is to make sure you come down at a good angle, and your only tools to do so are your innate sense of digital depth perception, some rough mental calculations, and a button that mercifully lets you speed up your descent in case you get either of the first two things wrong."

The rest of the list is in flux, but there's plenty more demos in there worth checking out before Next Fest finishes—most of them with much improved user ratings than Mecha Break. Like Shotgun Cop Man, an action-platformer about going to Hell to arrest Satan, which currently has a 100% positive rating.

2025 continues apace with a whole new slate of highly anticipated anime premieres this spring. The spring anime season, which runs from April through ......

Bandai Namco has reportedly shed over a hundred staff between April 2024 and February 2025.

As first , the number of employees h......

A new season is about to begin in Pokemon Go, and the mobile game is kicking it off in a big way with a variety of new and returning events throughout......

Mozilla is already trying to backtrack on Firefox's controversial data privacy update, but it might be too little, too late

To add insult to injury, Mozilla also completely removed a section of its "Firefox FAQs" that included a promise to never sell user data. You can still see that section in snapshots on the Wayback Machine, but it's been wiped from the current version of the page.

Unsurprisingly, many Firefox customers were outraged with this apparent shift in Mozilla's stance on data privacy. Mozilla updated its blog post announcing the enhancement in an attempt to calm customers' worries, stating, "We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice."

To Mozilla's credit, the Privacy Notice is pretty detailed. However, that still might not be enough to regain Firefox clients' trust. After all, as one Reddit user put it, "People aren't upset about how transparent they're being, they just want to use a browser that doesn't collect and distribute their data. I'm no lawyer, but for example, it sounds like they have license to distribute the data below without contest."

Firefox customers are also concerned about what exactly Mozilla could do with their data within the somewhat vague bounds of "a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license." The most obvious possible explanation is some sort of AI feature for Firefox. For AI to function well, it needs to consume huge amounts of training data, and that data has to come from somewhere.

As another Reddit user pointed out, "The question no one seems to be asking is why they suddenly and desperately need rights to all of their user's INPUTS. I strongly suspect this is ultimately about AI."

The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most critical stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors.

Comments on a Mozilla forum thread included similar outrage, with one user replying, "You're not pulling the wool over our eyes, either remove those vile terms or lose at least half your clients."

As a Firefox user myself, I'm more than a little disappointed Mozilla seems to be quite literally deleting its data privacy promises. For many Firefox people, Mozilla's attempts to clear things up may be too little, too late.

The Alters ist eine innovative Mischung aus Survival, Abenteuer und Basenbau. Ihr schlüpft in die Rolle von Jan Dolski, der alternative Versionen von ......

Paradox Interactive has acquired Bulgarian developer Haemimont Games for an undisclosed amount.

The studio, known for its strategy games including Su......

Presidents' Day brings a wave of discounts on gaming laptops, desktops, and more, making it a great time to upgrade or invest in a new machine. Whethe......