New James Bond game ‘007 First Light’ unveiled

Published on 05/06/2025 - 14:16 GMT+2

While movie fans proceed to hold for an charismatic announcement regarding nan personality of nan caller James Bond and erstwhile nan concealed supplier will beryllium backmost connected nan large screen, gamers will beryllium thrilled by nan announcement of a caller video crippled which hits consoles adjacent year.

Developed and published by IO Interactive, nan folks behind Hitman, 007 First Light conscionable sewage its first trailer, which was released during PlayStation’s State of Play.

“This is Bond arsenic you’ve ne'er seen him earlier - nan youngest Bond fans person ever met,” sounds nan description. “In 007 First Light, astatine only 26 years old, he isn’t nan afloat fledged 007 you cognize from nan tux-and-martini days but a man pinch crisp instincts, sometimes reckless, who is still learning erstwhile to fight, erstwhile to bluff, and erstwhile to vanish into nan shadows."

The “completely original standalone story”, developed successful collaboration pinch Amazon MGM Studios, will spot a young Bond gain his nickname arsenic 007 – overmuch for illustration he did astatine nan commencement of Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s first outing arsenic Bond. 

The trailer sees M picture nan young spy arsenic “a slug without a target” and assigns him a ngo successful hopes of giving Bond a consciousness of focus. 

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The crippled was first announced successful 2020 and a deeper look astatine 007 First Light‘s gameplay is group to beryllium revealed this summer. 

In 2021, IO CEO Hakan Abrak said: “It was very important for america that it wasn’t a movie adaptation. It’s not a crippled astir a circumstantial movie, wherever nan communicative has already been told. Every Bond defines a procreation and it’s astonishing really they kept reinventing themselves complete truthful galore years.” 

007 First Light will beryllium nan first James Bond crippled to merchandise successful 14 years. The past Bond title to motorboat was 2012’s poorly received 007 Legends, released to observe nan iconic movie series’ 50th anniversary. 

Bond fans person already expressed their excitement for nan caller video game. 

“I’m excited for this. I’ve sewage nary uncertainty IOI tin nail nan infiltration gameplay and level design, hopefully they get nan action elements correct too,” wrote 1 fan, while different said: “James Bond has been truthful under-utilised for nan past fewer generations. I’m truthful stoked to spot 007 make a return.” 

Others person been wondering whether nan crippled uncover is simply a motion that things are speeding up for a cinematic announcement.  

The adjacent James Bond movie – now nether nan imaginative power of Amazon - is apparently being fast-tracked, pinch rumours suggesting that nan 26th escapade will deed cinemas by nan extremity of 2027.  

That intends that erstwhile nan adjacent Bond movie arrives, it will lucifer nan grounds for nan longest hold for a caller 007 since Sean Connery first played nan British spy successful 1962’s Dr No. The erstwhile grounds was GoldenEye, which was released successful 1995 - six years aft Timothy Dalton appeared in Licence to Kill. The 2015-2021 region between SPECTRE and No Time To Die already gave that grounds a tally for its money, chiefly owed to the Covid pandemic which delayed nan merchandise of nan film. 

We already cognize that nan 26th Bond movie will beryllium produced by Amy Pascal and David Heyman, and past month, we asked: Could Aaron Taylor-Johnson becoming Omega marque ambassador betheJames Bond confirmation we’ve each been waiting for? 

The hold continues...