Bethesda’s Indiana Jones Game May Finally Have A Name

believes they’ve figured out the name of Bethesda’s upcoming video game. And, well, it’s right up there with howlers like “ ” and “ .” According to a bunch of URLs recently registered by the rightsholder Lucasfilm, the name looks likely to be . Perhaps the URL for “The Lovely Triangle” was already taken? As yet, absolutely nothing is known about beyond this accidentally discovered detail—not even a genre is out there.

We know from that this game was originally meant to have been released in 2022, and from FTC court documents that it’s going to be . But beyond that, crickets. It’s been known that Swedish developer MachineGames for at least three years. It’s the team behind the last decade’s trilogy of first person shooter hits, , , and .

So an FPS seems likely. Owners Zenimax (the pharmaceutical sounding name of Bethesda’s holding company) have kept customarily quiet about what it might entail. Of course, that entire spider web of companies is now owned by Microsoft. We’ll learn more with , where the game is to be finally, properly revealed.

Of course, Microsoft and Bethesda were presumably hoping to wait until then before anyone found out what it was called. Oh god, what if the entire plan had been a name reveal, and no actual footage? Kurakasis’s poking around Lucasfilm’s paperwork has revealed not only addresses like “indianajonesandthegreatcirclegame.com” and “hindianajones and the great circle.com,” but also registered for “The Great Circle.” It’s very disappointing to learn this is for the game, and not George launching a new cult.

What the hell is it with and just the titles? This is a series that used to have wonderful names like and ! Now we’ve got or whatever it is, because I’ve already forgotten. However, there remains good reason to hope this’ll be a fun game, given the talent of the team making it—we should know a lot more very soon..