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Agent 64: Spies Never Die review – licence to kill time like the 90s never ended

PC; Replicant D6 This GoldenEye 007-styled retro shooter is an agreeable set of straightahead shooting missions that hark back to a simpler time, with simpler controls With 007 First Light, 2026 has already given us the best James Bond game in more than three decades, since the release of Rare’s N64 classic GoldenEye 007. But what about those players whose loyalties lie not with the super-spy himself but the particul

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#82
First seen
17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
Last checked
17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
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Publisher
The Guardian
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
13 Aug 2026, 13:00 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Alex Spencer
Section
Games
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PC; Replicant D6 This GoldenEye 007-styled retro shooter is an agreeable set of straightahead shooting missions that hark back to a simpler time, with simpler controls With 007 First Light, 2026 has already given us the best James Bond game in more than three decades, since the release of Rare’s N64 classic GoldenEye 007. But what about those players whose loyalties lie not with the super-spy himself but the particul
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    Agent 64: Spies Never Die review – licence to kill time like the 90s never ended

    PC; Replicant D6 This GoldenEye 007-styled retro shooter is an agreeable set of straightahead shooting missions that hark back to a simpler time, with simpler controls With 007 First Light, 2026 has already given us the best James Bond game in more than three decades, since the release of Rare’s N64 classic GoldenEye 007. But what about those players whose loyalties lie not with the super-spy himself but the particul

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  • machine content-type Analysis or opinion observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
  • machine language-signal Investigation language observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
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  • publisher category Culture rss-category
  • publisher category Games rss-category
  • publisher category James Bond rss-category
  • publisher category PC rss-category
  • publisher category Shooting games rss-category
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Capture ID
#1
Observed
17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
460,621 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt