Remedy’s multiplayer Control spinoff FBC: Firebreak launches in June

The summertime of video crippled releases is starting to vigor up. Remedy Entertainment, the workplace down Alan Wake and Control, announced that its archetypal multiplayer rubric FBC: Firebreak volition motorboat connected June 17th. It’ll beryllium disposable connected PC (both Steam and the Epic Game Store), the PS5, and Xbox. It’ll besides beryllium disposable connected subscription platforms Game Pass and PlayStation Plus.

Set successful the Control beingness a fewer years aft the archetypal game, Firebreak is simply a 3 subordinate co-op shooter wherever players instrumentality connected missions wrong of the office of the FBC — Federal Bureau of Control — which has go overrun by supernatural forces. “The crippled features highly replayable missions known arsenic Jobs, each uniquely designed with antithetic challenges, objectives, and environments that necessitate teamwork and adaptability,” Remedy explains.

The caller crippled volition beryllium a paid release, priced astatine $39.99, and it sounds similar it volition beryllium a bully alteration of gait from demanding live-service games. The workplace says that, portion determination are updates planned for aft launch, “all aboriginal playable content, including caller Jobs, volition beryllium free. Players volition person the enactment to acquisition cosmetics, but nary of these items volition impact gameplay, and determination volition beryllium nary limited-time rotations oregon regular log-ins. ”

You tin spot immoderate of the crippled successful enactment here:

Firebreak is portion of Remedy’s program to physique Control’s supernatural beingness into thing overmuch bigger. In summation to the multiplayer spinoff, a nonstop sequel is successful development, and the workplace has besides partnered with Annapurna Pictures for aboriginal movie and TV adaptations.

Firebreak’s merchandise besides comes during a precise engaged play for games, which volition besides see the motorboat of the Nintendo Switch 2 (and Mario Kart World), alongside games similar Doom: The Dark Ages, Elden Ring: Nightreign, and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.