Hitman dev cuts ties with MMA fighter Conor McGregor following court ruling

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Hitman dev cuts ties with MMA fighter Conor McGregor following court ruling

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Hitman developer IO Interactive has ended a partnership with MMA fighter Conor McGregor after a civil court ruling found he was liable for a 2018 ******* ********.

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in a Dublin civil case last week brought by a woman who accused McGregor of ******* ********, and was ordered to pay 250,000 euros (or around $257,000).

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in the initial case, and McGregor called the case “

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“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,” the studio

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. “We take this matter very seriously and cannot ignore its implications.”

The DLC is no longer for *****, and the video announcement has been removed from

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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. We take this matter very seriously and cannot ignore its implications. Consequently, we will begin removing all…

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The former UFC star has a long history of public incidents involving alcohol, driving under the influence, and ******* comments from long before IO Interactive partnered with him on a World of ************** DLC. He was previously

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and charged after attacking a fan taking his picture, which was all recorded on surveillance video. All charges were subsequently dropped. He pleaded guilty to ******** in 2019 after punching a man at a Dublin pub, and was arrested on ******* ******** charges, although those were dropped.

Hitman 3 was transformed into Hitman: World of ************** in 2023, and IO has been steadily releasing DLC starring celebrities as elusive targets. McGregor wasn’t cast as himself in the DLC. Rather, he played The Disruptor, a rich MMA star who’s tasked with fighting a tech CEO. Unfortunately, the CEO’s executives hire Agent 47 to take out The Disruptor. For doing so, players got access to some themed cosmetics, including the fur coat and a cane, along with permanent access to a two-level Arcade contract called The Ostentatious.

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