A video game in which you can hunt and kill Connor McGregor has pulled the DLC he stars in following the fighter’s sexual assault conviction in an Irish court.
In Hitman: World of Assassination, players take on the role of Agent 47. The bald assassin moves through elite circles taking contracts and killing targets. Over the years the game has sold new assassination targets as DLC and over the summer released a pack that allowed players to murder Irish mixed martial arts star Connor McGregor. It cost $4.99.
IO Interactive, the maker of Hitman, says they’re removing it from stores. “In light of the recent court ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the decision to cease its collaboration with the athlete, effective immediately,” it said in a post on X. “We take this matter very seriously and cannot ignore its implications. Consequently, we will begin removing all content featuring Mr. McGregor from our storefronts starting today.”
Nikita Hand accused McGregor of raping her in a penthouse hotel in 2018. Ireland investigated the case but didn’t bring criminal charges. Hand pursued a civil case and a jury in Dublin found the fighter liable for sexual assault and awarded Hand around $260,000 in damages.
IO Interactive announced it had severed ties with McGregor a few days after the trails results were public. As of this writing, the store page for the DLC is still up on steam. “In this DLC, you can kill Connor AKA the person who had a terrible night with a woman in a Hotel. Please, do whatever you want with him,” a review posted on November 23 said.
“3.99 to repeatedly murder a serial rapist/abuser, sounds like a steal to me,” said another.
“Now I can kill the rapist, great DLC,” said a third.
© Steam screengrab.In the setup for the DLC, McGregor—simply called The Disruptor in the game—was scheduled to tussle with a tech billionaire in a fight to the death. The cage match was set to happen on a scheduled castle on a private island at an Eyes Wide Shut-style party. The tech billionaire’s investors hired Agent 47 to kill McGregor before he could destroy the billionaire in the ring.
The joy of Hitman is that it gives you the freedom to pursue your target in a variety of ways. Players could sneak into the ring and beat McGregor to death in front of an audience, push him off a cliff, or go loud and blow him away with a shotgun. Now that he’s been found liable for sexual assault there will no longer be a digital way to hunt and kill Conor McGregor.
Compilations of his violent demise, however, remain available on YouTube.
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