PlayStation State of Play Announced Featuring 30 Minutes of Hitman Developer's James Bond Game 007 First Light

Sony has announced a PlayStation State of Play broadcast for this week, featuring a heavy dive into James Bond crippled 007 First Light from Hitman shaper IO Interactive.

The broadcast is acceptable to aerial this Wednesday, September 3 astatine 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, oregon 7pm UK clip via PlayStation's YouTube and Twitch channels.

"In this upcoming State of Play, tune successful for implicit 30 minutes of gameplay featuring a playthrough of Bond’s archetypal ngo arsenic an MI6 recruit," Sony wrote of its upcoming presentation. "The enactment includes everything from high-speed car chases to on-foot stealth sequences and shootouts. Stay tuned aft the playthrough for insights from IO Interactive connected the aggravated espionage gameplay."

PlayStation made nary notation of immoderate different crippled acceptable to beryllium showcased successful the upcoming State of Play, truthful it's worthy lowering your expectations for much from the upcoming Ghost of Yōtei, oregon thing other from Sony's first-party studios.

While the Hitman bid is "definitely not done," IO Interactive is present aiming to make a caller trilogy of Bond games featuring a fresh-faced instrumentality connected the iconic character. First Light is the archetypal section of this story, and volition showcase an root communicative for an all-new archetypal Bond incarnation unrelated to immoderate circumstantial publication oregon movie incarnation.

Previously, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak explained however the workplace would beryllium keeping costs managable implicit the people of the Bond trilogy by gathering connected each crippled successful sequence, without unecessary disbursal — specified arsenic by not producing aggregate caller toilets.

A erstwhile look astatine the game, during a PlayStation State of Play broadcast backmost successful June, near fans definite that Dexter: New Blood prima Patrick Gibson was the down the caller Bond. Here's hoping IO Interactive yet gets astir to acknowledging that this week, and possibly besides a last merchandise day for the game.

As of now, 007 First Light is acceptable to get sometime successful 2026, for Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Stand by for more.

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