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

The James Bond franchise has an extended historical past of getting pop stars to report its theme songs (maybe most memorably with Live and Let Die), and it seems to be like that custom will now prolong 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 Gentle” is written and carried out by Lana Del Rey and composer David Arnold, and like the moody and abstract opening credits launched alongside the track, 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 could 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 best way 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, considered one of a number of songs that have been forged apart in favor of Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall.”

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