The James Bond franchise has a protracted historical past of getting pop stars to report its theme songs (maybe most memorably with Stay and Let Die), and it seems like that custom will now prolong to online game variations in regards to the fictional spy. IO Interactive has introduced that Lana Del Rey co-wrote and carried out the theme for 007 First Gentle, the developer’s playable James Bond origin story.
“First Gentle” is written and carried out by Lana Del Rey and composer David Arnold, and just like the moody and summary opening credit launched alongside the track, might vaguely gesture on the themes of the sport. IO Interactive has beforehand stated that its sport 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 sport.
Del Rey’s private gaming expertise might start and finish along with her hit “Video Video games,” which was apparently written a couple of former boyfriend’s love of World of Warcraft, however the artist does know methods to write a track with Bond in thoughts. Lana Del Rey shared in 2024 that her track “24” from the album Honeymoon was initially written for 2017’s Spectre, one in every of a number of songs that had been forged apart in favor of Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall.”
007 First Gentle is coming to Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC on Could 27, 2026. A Nintendo Change 2 model of the sport is now popping out this summer season.
