FBC: Firebreak

Also, I have not heard anyone connect these two.

And since you're the only one of us that's played it, does Firebreak have anything...

Story-wise not really

not that I could tell there is This isn't a spoiler.

There is a really great side quest.

I ran into Where you're helping a firebreaker? repair a bunch of stuff in one of the environments and And when you run into them, they look like a Firebreaker, where they just have the kitbash together outfit, and they're carrying a giant wrench, and they have all of the almost offensive Firebreaker lines that they're saying.

It's a really good moment, but beyond that, I don't think I have seen anything from Firebreak, which is a little bit of a bummer, because...

Firebreak was a really good game it just people don't want to figure out how to play a video game which is a real bummer

good.

It's nice, especially nice to see after Firebreak.

Like, I think Firebreak

just kind of made everyone kind of, you know, let out one of those depressing sighs and

commiserate that nobody liked this.

Yes.

The Firebreak?

Yes.

That's it.

See, that's the problem.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is the day where FP- FBC: Firebreak came out.

I know that ain't who I think it is.

And even though Remedy tried they best, safe to say it was not enough.

As that particular game resulted in around $15 million as far as non-cash impairment, driving the 2025 operating loss, the CEO resignation [alarmed sound effect], the support being reduced for Remedy, and of course [bell sound effect] in a effort to let the player base know we still care about you, they said final content update is issued, but the servers will remain online.

[applause] Now, the reason why I clapped that up is because usually when games go through a horrendous loss, safe to say the developers would just be like, "Hey, y'all didn't support it, so the servers are going offline" but they kept it up for the people who enjoy that specific game.

So the reason why I started off with FBC, FBC: Firebreak coming out in 2025 and losing Remedy around $15 million is because, ladies and gentlemen, did they bounce back like none other, as they objectively had their strongest Steam launch ever with Control: Resonant.

[bell dinging] [bomb exploding] If you don't know, Control: Resonant came out September 24th, 2026 for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X and S.

Crossfire X, what's the other one that came out from the control universe? The multiplayer one.

Oh, Firebreak.

Yeah, FC- FC-

Exactly

...

PC Firebreak, yeah.

Yeah, don't, don't even.

Don't even.

Like, I, I still believe in them.

I, I appreciate they took the swing, just I appreciate that they took a swing with FBC: Firebreak, um, [laughs] which we vividly remember, Sean, but, like-

Sure

... you know-

Nice.

Which Final Fantasy? It's gotta be seven, but-

FBC: Fire Break.

Easy.

Remedy at the moment, well, they...

O- other than, what was it? Firebreak, which we had fun when we played together.

A bunch of fun.

That, that didn't do too well.

Our bread and butter was third-person shooters in terms of Max Payne exploding so much." And then it's like, "Well, yeah, let's twin a few things together.

We tried FPC, Firebreak, we tried a live service game.

Didn't work at all.

Let's do a hack and slash open world game and we can fill it full of, like, side content and that kind of thing.

Which, with the ending, you believe that there possibly could be definitely more Control games or building off in the Control universe eventually.

Except for that FBC Firewatch, that first-person extraction kind of shooter game.

I wanted to enjoy that game, but it did not work for me, unfortunately.

But Control Resident definitely did.