17th December 2025 New CONTROL Resonant Teaser Explores Dylan Faden's Ambitions & Conflicts

CONTROL Resonant is designed as both a direct sequel to Control and as its own standalone title. While we heavily recommend checking out the original 2019 adventure, there will also be players going into the adventure not knowing who Dylan Faden is or the anything but Ordinary mystery behind the siblings. 

To refresh your memory or catch you up to date on the character, Remedy has posted a new teaser for CONTROL Resonant centred around the broody (though not without reason) protagonist. While the two-minute video is targeted for new or returning audiences, there's also snippets of new information for those players whose Oldest House feels more like the Oldest Home by this point. 

Check out the trailer below, and scroll further down for a full transcript. 

Dylan Faden was taken captive and experimented on as child by a mysterious government organization. Now that very same organization wants to use him to defeat a mysterious cosmic entity plunging Manhattan into a paranatural crisis. Dylan wants to make things right and find his… pic.twitter.com/tx9yy3Isv2

— CONTROL Resonant 🔻Wishlist Now! (@ControlRemedy) December 17, 2025

.

Introducing Dylan Faden Video Transcript

Faced with a reality bending cosmic threat, humanity's salvation lies in Dylan Faden, an unlikely hero seeking redemption in CONTROL Resonant.

We last left Dylan in a coma after his sister, Jesse, thwarted his attempt to help the monovalent entity, The Hiss, take over The Federal Bureau of Control. Now, freed from the Hiss' influence, woken from his coma, and with Jesse missing, Dylan steps out into a warped version of Manhattan.

To save humanity and himself, he'll need to find his sister and prevent a paranatural crisis that threatened to tear this world apart. 

At the start of CONTROL Resonant, Dylan is still grappling with the tragic events of his childhood, and the emotional scars left by growing up as a captive of the FBC.

Leaving FBC headquarters, The Oldest House, for the first time since he was a child, Dylan will have to come to terms with his own pain, the damage he's caused others, and the choices he'll have to make to save the world. Like his sister, Jesse, Dylan is a powerful parautilitarian, the FBC's term for people with otherworldly abilities, who can wield Objects of Power, mysterious items of parantural properties.

While Jesse's service weapon morphed into various gun types to keep the enemies at a distance, Dylan's Object of Power, The Aberrant, is melee focused, allowing him to close in on his foes and unleash brutal finishes. 

It's not just The Aberrant that develops across the game, however, Dylan's volatile powers had already seen him branded a threat to the bureau, and as he explores more of the world outside The Oldest House, he'll both develop new abilities, and hone his existing ones; turning him from paranatural powder keg to focused fearsome combatant.

Whether it will be enough for him to prevent reality from collapsing and discover his own purpose and salvation, you'll have to see for yourself when CONTROL Resonant releases on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series x and S, and PC via Steam and The Epic Games Store in 2026

Tweet Archive: Dylan Faden was taken captive and experimented on as child by a mysterious government organization. Now that very same organization wants to use him to defeat a mysterious cosmic entity plunging Manhattan into a paranatural crisis. Dylan wants to make things right and find his lost sister, Jesse. 

CONTROL Resonant releases in 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and Mac via Steam and the App Store. Wishlist now! #CONTROLResonant

[7:02pm EET - December 17th 2025]

Read More

16th December 2025 Remedy Celebrates Game Reveal with CONTROL Resonant Fan Art Competition

In celebration of CONTROL Resonant's announcement at The Game Awards, Remedy is hosting a fan art competition over on Discord. If you love to enter but feeling that things are a little tight at the moment schedule-wise, don't worry, the competition will be running until January 11th 2026 at 23:59 GMT. 

Your task is to create a piece of CONTROL Resonant fan art in whatever style or medium you want to explore. While technically classed as a "fan art" competition, the studio has clarified that your entry can "be images, videos, written work etc" exploring different levels of artistry in the community.

For the writers looking to enter, Remedy explains the requirements for your post further in the terms and conditions, stating "Your written entries should not exceed 400 words. If you are submitting your entry in a different format, you can include supporting text of no more than 100 words."

How to Enter: Once your artwork is complete, upload it to the #fanart channel and react to your post with the red square emoji (🟥) for it to be automatically posted to the #control-resonant-announcement-fan-art-competition. 

There will be six winners in total for this competition; three voted for by the community (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and three selected by Remedy (1st, 2nd, 3rd). The prizes for each tier remain the same across bother groups:

1st Place: The Art and Making of Control Book & Control Coffee Mug

2nd Place: Control Coffee Mug & Control Mouse Mat

3rd Place: Control Mouse Mat

For more information, check out:
https://community.remedygames.com/control-resonant-announcement-competition-terms-conditions

Enter at https://discord.gg/remedygames

Good luck to all of the amazing artists taking on the challenge! We wish you all the best, and can't wait to see your creations take form. 

Read More

14th December 2025 Embargo Lifts on Early CONTROL Resonant Digital Event with Select Press [w. Interviews]

Ahead of The Game Awards, Mikael Kasurinen (Co-Creative Director) and Thomas Puha (Communications Director) held a digital event for with selected press, detailing a little more about what's the studio has in store in CONTROL Resonant.

The event consisted of two parts; an early reveal of the trailer and a Q&A session with the two developers. While a lot of the details are naturally still secret, the discussion provided greater insight into how the team are approaching the experience, and Resonant's overall structure.

Through the interviews we learn that both games are seen as the siblings fight to reconnect with each other, that Manhattan has been walled off by a supernatural force, that the Aberrant (Dylan's main weapon) can take multiple forms described as a “paranormal weapon for a supernatural street fight” and that exploration and discovery is at the heart of the experience. (For those who love tracking down each detail, it's going to be exciting.)

Each article takes a different focus depending on the publication and the writer, so it's really interesting to read the different takeaways from the event. Our list above is only a few examples of what has been written. 

Below is a selection of previews that we've tracked down. As always, this list will continue to expand throughout the evening and over the next few days as more are posted online:

• Kotaku: Control 2 Is A Trippy Character Action Game Set In A Twisted NYC by Zack Zwiezen [Archived]
  
  
• ComicBook: Control 2 Fully Revealed by Remedy, And It’s Making Huge Changes by Logan Moore [Archived]
  
  
• Polygon: Control Resonant revealed — and it might not be the sequel you're expecting by Michael McWhertor [Archived]
  
  
• IGN: Control: Resonant Announced by Remedy for 2026 Release | The Game Awards 2025 by Ryan Mccaffrey [Archived]
  
  
• Game Informer: Remedy Reveals Control Resonant, A Melee Action-RPG Sequel To Control Starring Jesse's Brother by Wesley LeBlanc [Archived]
  
  
• Eurogamer: Control Resonant sends Jesse's brother, Dylan, to a perception-bending Manhattan at some point in 2026 by Victoria Phillips Kennedy [Archived]
  
  
• Engadget: Control Resonant steps into a larger world that's inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion by Alessandro Fillari [Archived]*
  
  
• Video Games Chronicles: First Look: Control Resonant is a big departure from the first game, but should Remedy fans panic? by Jordan Middler [Archived]*
  
  
• Entertainment Weekly: Control Resonant, sequel to Remedy game, unveils reality-altering first look: 'It's gonna get weirder' by Nick Romano [Archived]*

*While writing this post, Wayback Machine started to encounter some issues with archiving. Previously archived sites are still accessible, but we will need to add the final three once the saving option is back in play.

Read More

13th December 2025 Control Ultimate Edition On Sale at Humble Store [Humble Heroines Bundle] & Steam

If you've yet to jump into Control, this holiday may be the perfect time to do that! With Remedy dropping its epic trailer for the sequel, Control Resonant, yesterday morning, the studio will be gearing up for its launch in 2026. While they've said that you don't literarily have to play the original, we know from friends' past experience that those who do explore it first have a richer experience of the story. Similar to Alan Wake and Alan Wake II, where Alan Wake II was both a sequel and a standalone experience.

While not announced directly, Control Resonant is likely to be part of the Remedy Connected Universe, which links the Alan Wake and Control series.

What Do I Need To Play? If you're new to Remedy's work and discovered this page when looking around for more information, hello! The core Remedy Connected Universe experience beings with Alan Wake (either original or remastered edition), Control, and then Alan Wake 2. Those are the core games, in chronological order, that will help you understand the game universe.

If you want to expand your knowledge, Max Payne 1&2, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Quantum Break, and FBC: Firebreak do link back into RCU, just in more minor ways. For example, Quantum Break was developed by Remedy, but is not officially part of the RCU as Microsoft holds the IP. However if you play Alan Wake 2's expansion, Night Springs, there's a very definite Quantum Break vibe. 

What Version of Control Do I Get? There are two versions of Control; the standard base game and the Ultimate Edition. If you purchase the standard game, you will either need to get the Season Pass or the two expansions separately. The Control Ultimate Edition is the complete experience with both DLC. 

At the moment, both Humble Bundle and Steam has Control Ultimate Edition on sale!

For the next few hours, Control can be purchased as part of the Humble Heroines bundle, where proceeds go to Girls Who Code and Girls Make Games Scholarship Fund. Along with the Control Ultimate Edition, you will also be able to pick up Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Darksiders III, Beyond: Two Souls, Pseudoregalia, Thief of Thieves, and Kill the Crows. The bundle costs at least  £9.02 for all seven games. Learn more about the Humble Heroines Bundle, HERE.

Control Ultimate Edition is also on sale on Steam over the weekend, where it has received a hefty 85% price drop. If you only want to purchase Control, you can get it direct from the Steam page, HERE. 

Read More