The title of Bethesda’s Indiana Jones game may have leaked

The title of Bethesda’s upcoming Indiana Jones game may have leaked ahead of a planned reveal this month.

As spotted by X user Kurakasis, earlier this week Lucasfilm registered several domains for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, including one that specifically refers to it as a game.

They also note that Lucasfilm filed a trademark in Europe two years ago for The Great Circle, which lists video games as one of the goods and services it’s intended to be used on.

I might have found the official title of Bethesda’s Indiana Jones game developed by MachineGames:

INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE

Lucasfilm registered several domains on January 9th, 2024, with that title, such as:
https://t.co/PtXjpar7N1 (this one leaves no doubt that it… pic.twitter.com/XGVVyasrbM

— Kurakasis (@Kurakasis) January 10, 2024

Announced in January 2021, Indiana Jones is in development at MachineGames, the Swedish studio behind the modern Wolfenstein titles.

Microsoft confirmed this week that MachineGames will unveil the action-adventure game during an Xbox and Bethesda presentation on January 18.

“Developer_Direct will showcase more than 10 minutes of game and developer insights, including details about the game’s setting and story, how fans will actually play as Indy, additional details from his next globe-trotting adventure, and the premiere of the first gameplay trailer,” it said.

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While the game was originally set to come to PlayStation too, it was recently confirmed that it will be an Xbox and PC exclusive, and a day-one release on Game Pass, following Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media, which owned MachineGames.

Bethesda game director Todd Howard, who is serving as executive producer on the game, and whose favourite film is Raiders of the Lost Ark, has said of its genre: “I would just say it’s a mash-up. It is a unique, it isn’t one thing intentionally, so it does a lot of different things”.