15 years after ‘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 diversifications concerning 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 Light” 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 stated 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 Games,” which was apparently written a couple of former boyfriend’s love of World of Warcraft, however the artist does know learn how 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 among a number of songs that have been forged apart in favor of Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall.”

007 First Light is coming to Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC on May 27, 2026. A Nintendo Switch 2 model of the sport is now popping out this summer season.