Bizarre bringing James Bond: Blood Stone to PC, PS3, Xbox 360, DS @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on July 16, 2010

News: With Joss Stone performing the theme. I'm sure that's a coincidence.

While Wii owners will be getting a Bond blast from the past this Fall with GoldenEye 007, owners of the other consoles will get an all new spy story in the form of James Bond 007: Blood Stone. The game is in development at Bizarre Creations for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 with a separate DS version also in the works at handheld specialists n-Space.

While Activision executives have been hinting at Blood Stone for years, today's press release marks the first official ackowledgement of its existence. And with that announcement comes the first details about the game, such as the reveal that it'll focus on "[unraveling] an international conspiracy across exotic locales." OK, that was probably a given even before Activision announced it.

Taking place in a third-person perspective, the game will include "cover-based firefights" and "lethal hand-to-hand combat" along with Bizzare's patented high speed driving sequences. In the singleplayer game, Bond will sneak across Athens, Istanbul, Monaco and Bangkok while the online multiplayer modes will see the superspy battling up to 16 players.

Daniel Craig will return to voice James Bond along with Judi Dench as M. Soul singer Joss Stone has also been cast as the latest Bond girl, Nicole Hunter. Stone will team up with one half of Eurythmics, Dave Stewart, to write and perform the game's theme song, "I'll Take it All."

"I'm the first Bond girl with a nose ring," Stone told The Telegraph.

We'll have more soon.