2026 May Finally Answer the Question: James Bond or John Wick?
The argument over whether James Bond or John Wick would win in a fight probably won’t be decided by upcoming video games, but those games will definitely add to the conversation. Currently, the John Wick game doesn’t have a release date, while the 007 First Light game is planned for May 27, 2026, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. If the John Wick game is delayed until next year, 007 First Light might gain an advantage in this ‘battle.’ But the bigger question remains: who will ultimately come out on top?
![The study demonstrates how applying the Hecke operator [latex]T_{16}[/latex] to the chiral [latex]c=1[/latex] boson’s torus partition function [latex]Z_{\text{boson}}(\tau)[/latex] effectively multiplies its effective central charge by sixteen, manifesting as a sixteen-fold increase in the winding number of divergences-particularly evident at [latex]q \to 1[/latex]-and illustrating a fundamental transformation of modular functions through operator application.](https://arxiv.org/html/2602.12265v1/x2.png)
