Female leads may not be well-represented in the shooter genre, but these heroines make a strong case for changing that.

Some games build momentum, unlocking new skills, mechanics, or layers of story that make every chapter better than the last.

It also helps that Firebreak inherits certain charms from Control, particularly the Oldest House itself. This was already a great vidjamagame fightspace back when we were aggressively levitating ...

While the FBC's director, Jesse Faden (protagonist of Control), is off doing important work, it falls to gamers to finish off the work she started and make the bureau's mysterious and vast office ...

Firebreak is a spin-off of 2019's Control, which follows Jesse Faden – the director of a secretive government agency known as the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC).

The X-Files comparisons are inevitable, as the game opens with Jesse Faden arriving at the headquarters of the Federal Bureau Of Control, a government agency that investigates paranormal Altered ...

With no more of FBC director Jesse Faden's story until Control 2, and no required story content in Firebreak, the new game seems poised to truly stand on its own.

The gunplay in Firebreak is perfectly fine, I have nothing to fault it with, but I also don't feel like it's anything special. I like the diversity in weapons, because shooting with a revolver, ...

Jesse Faden is lured to the Federal Bureau of Control (kind of like if Mulder and Scully found a secret part of the government all on their own), and after grabbing a mysterious gun, she becomes the ...

This might signal Control 2 is the furthest away from launch. Is it in the Remedy Connected Universe? Yes, absolutely. Jesse Faden will return, and it might not even take 13 years. Condor (working ...

Sometimes, it can be hard to choose your next game to play on Xbox Game Pass. With almost 500 first-party Xbox games and third-party guest titles to choose from, the options seem both limitless ...

She also requested “contents of the ‘gun room,’ including belts, tools, plate carriers, helmets and other competitive shooting gear.” (In response to Rotten’s divorce filing, James ...