Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the latest game featuring the famed archeologist and adventurer, but publisher Bethsoft has deleted a teaser clip reminding viewers who he was up against in 1937: "You don't care much about those fascists, do you?" he says in it, to a cat. PC Games reports that conservatives complained the clip was a cryptic reference to Charlie Kirk, the right-wing influencer shot dead last week at a campus event in Utah, and demanded its removal.
The now-deleted clip, captioned "good kitty," was seemingly released as part of the DLC's post-launch social rollout. Crucially, Bethesda's official X account has been consistently uploading seven to 15-second posts and images of the action-adventure game's DLC since its release, so the clip is likely part of that wider push. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle also takes place in 1937, when Hitler and Mussolini's fascist regimes were in power.
Another trailer is still on YouTube. Don't worry; this one seems to be free of any direct criticism of far-right faves, then or now.
Since Kirk was shot by a meme-poisoned ultra-online sigma boy of no evidenced political affiliation, the Trump Administration has launched a crackdown on free speech and its political adversaries. Mainstream media appears to be running on fumes of fear and desperate self-preservation and Dem leadership is no-where to be seen. The latest prominent scalp: Jimmy Kimmel, suspended by ABC after being ordered to by Trump-appointed FCC commissioner Brendan Carr, following Kimmel's criticism of MAGA for exploiting Kirk's death.
