2025-05-14
'FBC: Firebreak' preview: Controlled chaos
A successful co-op shooter feels like a bottomless tub of popcorn, hot and smothered in golden butter, built for bite-sized consumption and impossible to resist. Smooth mechanics and a satisfying, repeatable loop should draw you in for one more bite, one more round, over and over again. FBC: Firebreak, Remedy Entertainment’s co-op shooter set in the universe of Control, almost hits these marks. It just needs a little more salt.
Remedy is a AA studio best known for crafting single-player games like Alan Wake and Control, which feature Lynchian mysteries and hellish twists, and Firebreak is the studio’s first attempt at crafting an online, cooperative, first-person shooter. Firebreak supports up to three players at a [...]
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2025-03-20
‘FBC: Firebreak’ first look: Left 4 Dead but with Remedy’s silly, surreal touch
There’s something really exciting about FBC: Firebreak, Remedy’s take on cooperative, online first-person shooters. I’ve been trying to pinpoint a specific wow factor since attending the game’ [...]
2025-06-20
Remedy is trying to fix FBC: Firebreak in response to middling reviews and player feedback
Remedy has shared its plans to improve FBC: Firebreak, the new multiplayer Control spinoff, following a string of less-than-stellar reviews that criticized the game's rough early hours. FBC: Fire [...]
2025-06-17
June’s Game Pass additions include Remedy co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak
Microsoft’s Game Pass is having a very impressive 2025 where the quality and cadence of releases is concerned, and things are showing no signs of slowing down as we settle into the summer months. Hi [...]
2025-05-24
Engadget review recap: DJI Mavic 4 Pro, Sony WH-1000XM6, ASUS ROG Flow Z13 and more
The biggest tech events in May and June may be software focused, but there's plenty of hardware going through the wringer here at Engadget. Over the last two weeks alone, we've put a drone, [...]
2025-04-24
Remedy will launch FBC: Firebreak on PC and consoles worldwide on June 17
Remedy Entertainment announced FBC: Firebreak will launch worldwide on June 17 on the PC (Steam and Epic Games Store) and the consoles. During a special livestream today, Espoo, Finland-based Remedy s [...]
2025-06-19
Video Games Weekly: Mario Kart World is the opposite of punishing
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (or Thursday?), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends [...]
