{"id":84097,"date":"2026-06-08T04:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84097"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:36:56","slug":"will-007-first-light-get-a-sequel-the-boss-of-amazon-games-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84097","title":{"rendered":"Will 007 First Light Get a Sequel? The Boss of Amazon Games Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>IO Interactive\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/007-first-light\">007 First Light<\/a> has wowed critics and already reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/007-first-light-dev-io-interactive-says-its-now-sold-3-million-copies-tracking-well-above-our-forecasts-at-this-point\">3 million sales in its first two weeks of release<\/a>. But that success has also come with confusion over the future of the series, due to comments made last week by Amazon\u2019s Head of Gaming, Jeff Gattis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/io-interactive-wont-self-publish-future-james-bond-games-amazon-will-have-more-control\">who said that sequels will be &#8220;done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To clarify the situation, IGN spoke with Gattis at Summer Game Fest about what the development and publishing of subsequent James Bond video games could look like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, let me set the record straight for you,\u201d said Gattis. \u201cI did not confirm that Amazon Game Studios is publishing the next one. Did not say that. So unfortunately, it got picked up, and once it runs, it runs. No, IO&#8217;s been great. They&#8217;ve been great partners. In fact, I was over there visiting them in Copenhagen a couple of months ago. The game&#8217;s doing great. Let&#8217;s let the game breathe and have its day.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"007-first-light-screenshots\" data-value=\"007-first-light-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Understandably, the uncertainty over IO\u2019s ability to carry on making the new series it\u2019s established caused a certain amount of worry with fans who would love nothing more than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IO Interactive\u2019s 007 First Light has wowed critics and already reached 3 million sales in its first two weeks of release. But that success has also come with confusion over the future of the series, due to comments made last week by Amazon\u2019s Head of Gaming, Jeff Gattis, who said that sequels will be &#8220;done&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":84099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84101,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097\/revisions\/84101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}