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Here's when you can start playing as Bond through his early days at MI6.

007 First Light developer IO Interactive has teased what fans can expect from the game's first content update, and it should be a treat.

IO awkwardly welds together two schools of game design.

The magic of 007 First Light is in the bluff. When IO Interactive's young James Bond is caught out yet again trying to sneak through some restricted area, he has numerous ways to resolve the situation. Gadgets. Fists. Guns. Whatever's lying on the nearest surface. But the most novel, and in some ways most satisfying, is simply to blag it. Pressing Circle (on PlayStation) will cause Bond to blurt out some impeccably improvised lie, stunning guards into second-guessing their suspicions and opening a brief window for Bond to slip by. Read more

IO Interactive has confirmed the exact second you can start playing 007 First Light next week.