15 Years After 'video Games,' Lana Del Rey Has An Actual Video Game Song

The James Bond franchise has a agelong history of getting popular stars to grounds its taxable songs (perhaps astir memorably pinch Live and Let Die), and it looks for illustration that contented will now widen to video crippled adaptations astir nan fictional spy. IO Interactive has announced that Lana Del Rey co-wrote and performed nan taxable for 007 First Light, nan developer's playable James Bond root story.

"First Light" is written and performed by Lana Del Rey and composer David Arnold, and for illustration the moody and absurd opening credits released alongside nan song, could vaguely motion astatine nan themes of nan game. IO Interactive has antecedently said that its crippled focuses connected a young, inexperienced and much reckless Bond, earlier he developed his trademark cool. The developer is besides integrating nan stealth mechanics it perfected successful Hitman into nan upcoming game.

Del Rey's individual gaming acquisition whitethorn statesman and extremity pinch her deed "Video Games," which was apparently written astir a erstwhile boyfriend's emotion of World of Warcraft, but nan creator does cognize really to constitute a opus pinch Bond successful mind. Lana Del Rey shared successful 2024 that her opus "24" from nan medium Honeymoon was primitively written for 2017's Spectre, 1 of respective songs that were formed speech successful favour of Sam Smith's "Writing's connected nan Wall."

007 First Light is coming to Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC connected May 27, 2026. A Nintendo Switch 2 type of nan crippled is now coming retired this summer.