Control Spin-Off Co-Op Game Coming to Xbox Game Pass

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Important takeaways

  • Remedy officially unveiled its previously announced Control multiplayer spin-off during the Xbox Partner Preview event in October 2024.
  • Called FBC: Firebreak, the game is a three-player co-op experience targeting a 2025 release for Xbox Series X/S and PC.
  • FBC: Firebreak will also one day be an Xbox Game Pass release.



Remedy Entertainment has officially revealed FBC: Firebreakits highly anticipated multiplayer game set in the Verify universe, which is now confirmed as one day an Xbox Game Pass release. The Verify spin-off was showcased during the recent Xbox Partner Preview event.

The game itself was originally announced in June 2021 as Project/Codename Condor. At the time, Remedy only said that Condor would be multiplayer Verify spin-off published by 505 Games. The project's official name was leaked via a trademark filing as early as January 2024.

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Remedy Entertainment clarifies that the production of its sequel to the 2019 hit game Control is unaffected by a change in one of its partners.

Nine months later, FBC: Firebreak has now been officially revealed during the Xbox Partner Preview event on October 17th. Its first 87-second trailer consists entirely of in-engine footage, suggesting that the game will offer incredibly chaotic action. As revealed by the shooter's Xbox Store listing which has gone live alongside the trailer itself, FBC: Firebreak will be a co-op experience for two or three players. The game will be released for Xbox Series X/S and PC.


FBC: Firebreak won't be “bite-sized” control, says Remedy

Players will be asked to step into the shoes of the agents of the titular Federal Bureau of Control (FBC) and take on a host of Hiss-infected enemies. Loren behind Verify's elevator is quite elaborate, and it is unclear how much of it FBC: Firebreak intends to explain, or perhaps even expand. But while beating the first entry in the franchise will undoubtedly help players understand what's going on in the upcoming multiplayer game, director Mike Kayatta insists that FBC: Firebreak is not a sequel. He's even reluctant to call it a spin-off, noting that the project won't be a “smaller, piecemeal” version of Verify but rather “its own, fully formed thing”.


The FBC: Firebreak an announcement trailer revealed that the game is now targeting a 2025 release. With 2024 almost upon us, this lack of a more specific release window suggests that the co-op shooter is likely to be released in the second half of next year rather than the first. Anyway, its reveal trailer has confirmed it FBC: Firebreak will be a day-1 addition to Xbox Game Pass. The Verify The spin-off will thus further strengthen Microsoft's growing 2025 lineup of Xbox Game Pass titles, which already includes the likes of Avowed, Doom: The Dark Agesand Wuchang: Fallen Feathers.

Based on the co-op shooter's first trailer, it looks like Remedy managed to recycle a lot Verify places for FBC: Firebreak. In addition to its first-ever multiplayer game, the Finnish developer is also working on Control 2having already confirmed as much in late 2022. Xbox Game Pass members can currently play Control: Ultimate Editionwhich has returned to the subscription service as early as March 2024.


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