The James Bond franchise has a protracted historical past of getting pop stars to report its theme songs (maybe most memorably with Live and Let Die), and it appears to be like like that custom will now lengthen to online game diversifications in regards to the fictional spy. IO Interactive has announced that Lana Del Rey co-wrote and carried out the theme for 007 First Light, the developer’s playable James Bond origin story.
“First Mild” is written and carried out by Lana Del Rey and composer David Arnold, and like the moody and abstract opening credits launched alongside the music, may vaguely gesture on the themes of the sport. IO Interactive has beforehand stated that its recreation focuses on a younger, inexperienced and extra reckless Bond, earlier than he developed his trademark cool. The developer can be integrating the stealth mechanics it perfected in Hitman into the upcoming recreation.
Del Rey’s private gaming expertise might start and finish along with her hit “Video Video games,” which was apparently written a few former boyfriend’s love of World of Warcraft, however the artist does know how one can write a music with Bond in thoughts. Lana Del Rey shared in 2024 that her music “24” from the album Honeymoon was initially written for 2017’s Spectre, certainly one of a number of songs that have been forged apart in favor of Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall.”
007 First Mild is coming to Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC on Might 27, 2026. A Nintendo Swap 2 model of the sport is now coming out this summer.