Game Where You Hunt and Kill Connor McGregor Pulls DLC Following His Sexual Assault Trial

A video crippled successful which you tin hunt and termination Connor McGregor has pulled the DLC helium stars successful pursuing the fighter’s sexual battle conviction successful an Irish court.

In Hitman: World of Assassination, players instrumentality connected the relation of Agent 47. The bald assassin moves done elite circles taking contracts and sidesplitting targets. Over the years the crippled has sold caller assassination targets arsenic DLC and implicit the summertime released a battalion that allowed players to execution Irish mixed martial arts prima Connor McGregor. It outgo $4.99.

IO Interactive, the shaper of Hitman, says they’re removing it from stores. “In airy of the caller tribunal ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the determination to cease its collaboration with the athlete, effectual immediately,” it said successful a station connected X. “We instrumentality this substance precise earnestly and cannot disregard its implications. Consequently, we volition statesman removing each contented featuring Mr. McGregor from our storefronts starting today.”

Nikita Hand accused McGregor of raping her successful a penthouse edifice successful 2018. Ireland investigated the lawsuit but didn’t bring transgression charges. Hand pursued a civilian lawsuit and a assemblage successful Dublin recovered the combatant liable for intersexual battle and awarded Hand astir $260,000 successful damages.

IO Interactive announced it had severed ties with McGregor a fewer days aft the trails results were public. As of this writing, the store leafage for the DLC is inactive up connected steam. “In this DLC, you tin termination Connor AKA the idiosyncratic who had a unspeakable nighttime with a pistillate successful a Hotel. Please, bash immoderate you privation with him,” a reappraisal posted connected November 23 said.

“3.99 to repeatedly execution a serial rapist/abuser, sounds similar a bargain to me,” said another.

“Now I tin termination the rapist, large DLC,” said a third.

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In the setup for the DLC, McGregor—simply called The Disruptor successful the game—was scheduled to tussle with a tech billionaire successful a combat to the death. The cage lucifer was acceptable to hap connected a scheduled castle connected a backstage land astatine an Eyes Wide Shut-style party. The tech billionaire’s investors hired Agent 47 to termination McGregor earlier helium could destruct the billionaire successful the ring.

The joyousness of Hitman is that it gives you the state to prosecute your people successful a assortment of ways. Players could sneak into the ringing and bushed McGregor to decease successful beforehand of an audience, propulsion him disconnected a cliff, oregon spell large and stroke him distant with a shotgun. Now that he’s been recovered liable for intersexual battle determination volition nary longer beryllium a integer mode to hunt and termination Conor McGregor.

Compilations of his convulsive demise, however, stay disposable connected YouTube.