James Bond Game From Hitman Dev Has a New Title, 007 First Light, Official Reveal This Week

Finally, much 5 years aft its archetypal announcement, we're astir to get our archetypal existent look astatine IO Interactive's caller James Bond game. Initially teased arsenic Project 007, the authoritative rubric is 007 First Light, and it's acceptable for a uncover sometime this week.

In a station to Twitter/X today, developer IO Interactive showed a inactive representation of presumably James Bond successful silouette lit faintly by a azygous beam of light, with substance speechmaking "First Light 007" and "Game uncover this week." It included a hashtag "#EarnTheNumber", apt a notation to a information that the task is an root communicative centered astir Bond "earning" his 007 number.

The station didn't see immoderate further details, but it seems apt we'll spot this crippled astatine 1 of the showcases planned for the coming week arsenic a portion of Summer Game Fest, Summer of Gaming, oregon 1 of the different gaming events emblematic for the archetypal week of June.

007 First Light was archetypal revealed backmost successful 2020 arsenic Project 007, and since past we've learned very, precise small astir it. We cognize it's a James Bond root communicative and is simply a wholly archetypal portion of enactment alternatively than retreading the events of immoderate peculiar film. More recently, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak said helium hopes this volition beryllium the commencement of a caller trilogy of games, though unluckily the studio's beloved Hitman franchise is connected hiatus portion IOI works connected this game. We besides learned conscionable this past April that successful summation to PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, it's getting a Nintendo Switch 2 release.

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