We Get One Shot At This: Why 007 First Light is the Most Important game of 2026
By Oliver Giles 007 First Light is the most important game of 2026, bar none. Yes, I am well aware that we are supposedly finally getting GTA VI this year, and I'm just as excited for that as everyone else, but, First Light represents a light in the black for many gamers: hope that if something is truly beloved by enough people, there is always a chance it will return. As the title implies, this piece is about hope, and it will be, but we've got to go through some nasty stuff first. As a kid of the 2000s, James Bond was the coolest thing in the world to me. By the time we arrived at the series' 50th anniversary in 2012, I'd seen all of the films, played almost all of the 3D-era games, and had even read the original novels. With all this in mind, I was understandably incredibly excited for the release of 007 Legends in October. Less than four months later, everything was on fire. Legends was a complete disaster; Eurocom went bust, and a drought of Bond games began th...