Finally, more five years after its first announcement, we’re about to get our first real look at IO Interactive’s new James Bond game. Initially teased as Project 007, the official title is 007 First Light, and it’s set for a reveal sometime this week.
In a post to Twitter/X today, developer IO Interactive showed a still image of presumably James Bond in silouette lit faintly by a single beam of light, with text reading “First Light 007” and “Game reveal this week.” It included a hashtag “#EarnTheNumber”, likely a reference to a fact that the project is an origin story centered around Bond “earning” his 007 number.
The post didn’t include any further details, but it seems likely we’ll see this game at one of the showcases planned for the coming week as a part of Summer Game Fest, Summer of Gaming, or one of the other gaming events typical for the first week of June.
007 First Light was first revealed back in 2020 as Project 007, and since then we’ve learned very, very little about it. We know it’s a James Bond origin story and is a wholly original piece of work rather than retreading the events of any particular film. More recently, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak said he hopes this will be the start of a new trilogy of games, though unfortunately the studio’s beloved Hitman franchise is on hiatus while IOI works on this game. We also learned just this past April that in addition to PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, it’s getting a Nintendo Switch 2 release.
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