FBC: Firebreak Could Be the New Left 4 Dead

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Rutledge Daugette
May 16, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes

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The upcoming co-op shooter from Remedy is set six years after Control, and it tasks you with clearing out some horrors and monstrosities from The Oldest House. You know, easy, casual, definitely not eerie stuff. Our editor in chief Andrew Otton played it early ahead of its release next month, and compared it to the all-time classic Left 4 Dead.

It’s been a rough past couple years for Ubisoft. Even with the relative success of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the company has years of financial baggage weighing it down. As part of its new strategy, we can expect more live-service-adjacent sorts of games to come down the pipeline. And also a Riders Republic movie, for some reason.

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This might be one of the most exciting Secret Lair collabs for Magic: The Gathering yet, and we’ll see three drops this summer that will feature new cards from this crossover. Find out a list of them in our story, which includes artifact cards for iconic Final Fantasy weapons and world-ending attacks from Sephiroth and Sin.

When the Switch 2 launches on June 5 (that’s in 3 weeks!), lots of Switch 1 games will get a free upgrade for its Switch 2 version. You can find the full list of them in our story here.

Release Date Roundup

After a long time being only available in overseas markets, this mobile RPG spinoff of the Phantom Thieves is coming to the West.

Originally slated for 2025, Rise of Hydra has been pushed back to early 2026, according to a post by developer Skydance Games.

On top of that, the streaming service confirmed that season 3 is now in the works. The real question is, where’s that God of War project Amazon’s working on?

But Missing-Link, the GPS-based mobile project, has been officially canceled.

Do you remember when Fairgame$ was revealed two years ago at a PlayStation Showcase? That’s the first and last we’ve really heard of the game until now. According to a report by Bloomberg, after initial external playtesting, responses weren’t positive. And now, that’s led to another studio and project that industry veteran Jade Raymond has left.

Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler has warned No Rest for the Wicked fans that the negative review score on Steam could lead the studio to be shut down because it would scare away future customers. Some of those negative reviews mentioned Mahler’s “anti-woke” views, for what it’s worth. As of the time of writing, the review score now sits at “Mostly Positive.”