{"id":49082,"date":"2026-05-02T04:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49082"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:59:52","slug":"007-first-lights-controller-doesnt-match-the-iconic-barrel-design-and-wasnt-meant-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49082","title":{"rendered":"007 First Light&#039;s Controller Doesn&#039;t Match The Iconic Barrel Design And Wasn&#039;t Meant To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4691366-screenshot2026-05-01at2.53.28%E2%80%AFpm.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When IO Interactive and Sony announced a 007 First Light PS5 controller inspired by the game, people quickly pointed out that the controller&#8217;s design looked like it was meant to evoke James Bond&#8217;s trademark barrel logo. Except it didn&#8217;t really, and it turns out that was by design.<\/p>\n<p>Art director Rasmus Poulsen told Eurogamer that what IO was trying to achieve was to reference &#8220;more how the UI of the game feels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So rather than simply making a franchise stamp, it relates to our product, in the sense that it has that UI sense&#8211;and then it has more of a, dare I say, &#8216;Sun&#8217; flavor, referring back to the title,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So there&#8217;s some things about light and shadow that we wanted to play with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/007-first-lights-controller-doesnt-match-the-iconic-barrel-design-and-wasnt-meant-to\/1100-6539751\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When IO Interactive and Sony announced a 007 First Light PS5 controller inspired by the game, people quickly pointed out that the controller&#8217;s design looked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[21819,5235,443,17031,6541,21818,4381,3871,21820],"class_list":["post-49082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-barrel","tag-controller","tag-design","tag-doesn039t","tag-iconic","tag-light039s","tag-match","tag-meant","tag-wasn039t","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}