{"id":468331,"date":"2025-12-24T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/468331\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:30:15","slug":"first-light-release-date-to-further-polish-and-refine-the-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/468331\/","title":{"rendered":"First Light&#8217; Release Date &#8220;To Further Polish And Refine The Experience&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIO Interactive has pushed the release date of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-bond\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-bond\" data-tag=\"james-bond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Bond<\/a> video game\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/007\/\" id=\"auto-tag_007\" data-tag=\"007\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">007<\/a>: First Light\u00a0back by two months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a statement on social media, the Danish video game developer explained why the video game was being delayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe game is progressing well and is fully playable from beginning to end, so these additional two months will allow us to further polish and refine the experience, ensuring we deliver the strongest possible version at launch,\u201d read the statement. \u201cWe\u2019re confident this sets 007 First Light up for long-term success, and we sincerely appreciate the patience and continued support we\u2019ve received ever since we revealed the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t007: First Light was expected to be released on March 27, 2026, but will now instead be available on May 27, 2026, the release date that the much-deleayed\u00a0GTA6\u00a0was initially supposed to drop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe video game was previewed during <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/playstation\/\" id=\"auto-tag_playstation\" data-tag=\"playstation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation<\/a>\u2018s 2025 State of Play in September. Dexter: Original Sin star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/patrick-gibson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_patrick-gibson\" data-tag=\"patrick-gibson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Gibson<\/a> stars as the 007 agent in his early days at MI6. Gibson will be joined by other actors voicing characters, including <strong>Lennie James<\/strong> (Greenway),\u00a0<strong>Priyanga Burford<\/strong> (M),\u00a0<strong>Alastair Mackenzie<\/strong> (Q),\u00a0<strong>Kiera Lester<\/strong> (Moneypenny), and\u00a0<strong>No\u00e9mie Nakai<\/strong> (Ms. Roth).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA standard edition of the game is available to pre-order now for $69.99, and anyone who pre-orders before the launch will automatically be upgraded to the deluxe edition, which includes cosmetic features and 24-hour early access to download the game digitally. IO is also offering a special edition priced at $299.99, featuring the Base Game, Deluxe Edition Content, Golden Gun Figurine, Certificate of Authenticity, Steelcase with a magnet, Golden Gun weapon skin, and Obsidian Gold suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRead the full statement from IO Interactive below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IO Interactive has pushed the release date of the James Bond video game\u00a0007: First Light\u00a0back by two months.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":468332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19194,15223,109935,3767,158,67,132,68,924],"class_list":{"0":"post-468331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-19194","9":"tag-james-bond","10":"tag-patrick-gibson","11":"tag-playstation","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-video-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115773140229451663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}