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007 First Light Passes 7 Million Wishlists and Celebrates With Jack the Bulldog

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Seven million wishlists is a very Bond number, and IO Interactive is celebrating it the right way: with a dog. The studio announced on October 7 that 007 First Light has surpassed 7 million wishlists across all platforms, and the milestone unlocks Jack the Bulldog as a companion in the game’s TacSim lobby for every player.

Jack is deep-cut Bond history. The bulldog first appeared as a statue on M’s desk in Skyfall in 2012, survived the explosion that destroyed her office with a cracked face and a charred Union Jack, and returned in Spectre and No Time To Die. In First Light he is alive, described by IO as gruff on the outside but endlessly good-natured, a fixture around MI6 that Bond himself has grown fond of between assignments. And yes, the studio confirms the only detail that matters: you can pet him.

The milestone arrives alongside the free Extended Operations update, available now. It adds New Game+, letting players replay the campaign with their unlocked outfits and gadgets, a new 007 difficulty mode, a full Photo Mode and refined weapon handling. TacSim also grows, with the Valhalla Protocol missions built around the Aston Martin Valhalla and a new mission set at The Pearl in Vietnam.

007 First Light is IO Interactive’s original Bond origin story, developed with Amazon MGM Studios, and it is available now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and it is currently on sale with a 30 percent discount on Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. A Nintendo Switch 2 version is due in March 2027.

Seven million people asked for this game. Every one of them can now stop by TacSim and give Jack a pat before the next mission.

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Planted! Launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, Bringing Horticultural Combat to Consoles

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Competitive gardening has officially gone extreme. Planted!, the chaotic 1-to-4 player party game from Welsh studio Cloth Cat Games and publisher Curveball Games, launches today on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, inviting players to sow, grow and throw their way to victory against their friends.

The setup is simple and gloriously silly: players race around an allotment growing fresh produce, then fling it at goals, and at each other, to rack up points and be crowned champion. There is an arsenal for the dirty work, too, including weed bombs, spud turrets and eerily green clones to help players edge out the competition.

The eight multiplayer arenas refuse to stay in the garden. Matches play out on windy mountainsides, in cavernous cave systems, on half-built skyscrapers and around active volcanoes, each location bringing its own twists and hazards. The arenas support both local play and online multiplayer with crossplay, and players can pick from a cast of unlikely characters, each with their own personality and style.

For solo players, Planted! also carries a full single-player story mode set in the cutthroat world of competitive gardening, with challenges and boss battles that teach the tactics which carry straight into multiplayer. “What started as a fun prototype for us to test out our weird and wacky ideas on has become a game the whole team has poured so much heart and soul into,” said Ben Cawthorne, Creative Producer at Cloth Cat Games.

Planted! is available digitally now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. A digital PC release and a physical PlayStation 5 edition follow in time for Christmas, after a delay to the Steam version’s approval, and a Nintendo Switch version is planned for early 2027.

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