FBC Firebreak Brings Squad Combat to Haunted Offices With Remedy's Surreal Humor

When I first heard there would be a multiplayer spin-off of the X-Files-like action game Control, I expected it to pit players against one another with all the psychic powers and weird weapons that made the original game a riot to play. But FBC Firebreak, the next game from Remedy Entertainment, leans hard into the workplace-absurdity angle as players boldly steer ordinary agents to beat invaders out of their offices. Those offices, of course, belong to the Federal Bureau of Control, the mysterious government agency players explored in Control. In a hands-off digital preview, Remedy gave media an early look at how its next game will play when it comes out in summer 2025. FBC Firebreak has three-player squads venturing into various environments in the Oldest House, as the FBC's massive building is called, nested with different settings, from offices lined with shag carpet to pipe-filled corridors to dank caves. Most of the areas I saw looked straight out of Control, unchanged from whe ... Read full article.