15 years after ‘Video Video games,’ Lana Del Rey has an precise online game tune

The James Bond franchise has an extended historical past of getting pop stars to document its theme songs (maybe most memorably with Live and Let Die), and it seems like that custom will now lengthen to online game variations 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 tune, may vaguely gesture on the themes of the sport. IO Interactive has beforehand mentioned that its recreation focuses on a younger, inexperienced and extra reckless Bond, earlier than he developed his trademark cool. The developer can also be integrating the stealth mechanics it perfected in Hitman into the upcoming recreation.

Del Rey’s private gaming expertise might start and finish together 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 the right way to write a tune with Bond in thoughts. Lana Del Rey shared in 2024 that her tune “24” from the album Honeymoon was initially written for 2017’s Spectre, one in all a number of songs that had been solid apart in favor of Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall.”

007 First Mild is coming to Xbox Sequence X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC on Could 27, 2026. A Nintendo Swap 2 model of the sport is now coming out this summer.