Indiana Jones Trademark Reveals Potential Name For Upcoming Xbox Title

Interesting. I assume it's something related to maps, etc. as a "Great Circle" is the shortest distance between two points on a globe.

This is better that it just being called "Indiana Jones", and then having to put a year after it when they decide to reboot it.

As long as it’s a great game, that is what matters.

I guess Disney is hoping Xbox can revive this dead Disney IP. Good luck with that.

That's a really terrible name if true. But it could be worse.

The great circle is the Xbox logo 💚

Interesting, I’m so looking forward to this direct. I love Indiana Jones and this new title has me so curious. So many possibilities.

@Kaloudz I hate to use Wikipedia as a reference for anything, but I'm lazy today so:

"In mathematics, a great circle or orthodrome is the circular intersection of a sphere and a plane passing through the sphere's center point."

"Some examples of great circles on the celestial sphere include the celestial horizon, the celestial equator, and the ecliptic. Great circles are also used as rather accurate approximations of geodesics on the Earth's surface for air or sea navigation (although it is not a perfect sphere), as well as on spheroidal celestial bodies.

The equator of the idealized earth is a great circle and any meridian and its opposite meridian form a great circle. Another great circle is the one that divides the land and water hemispheres. A great circle divides the earth into two hemispheres and if a great circle passes through a point it must pass through its antipodal point."

Knowing Indiana Jones, I'm guessing it's probably some mythical place that requires knowledge in geometry in order to find.

Either that or it has something to do with treasure related to Gerardus Mercator since Mercator projection is slightly related to great circle navigation ideas:

"The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and south as down everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes. The map is thereby conformal. As a side effect, the Mercator projection inflates the size of objects away from the equator. This inflation is very small near the equator but accelerates with increasing latitude to become infinite at the poles. As a result, landmasses such as Greenland, Antarctica, Canada and Russia appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equator, such as Central Africa."

"The Mercator projection was designed for use in marine navigation because of its unique property of representing any course of constant bearing as a straight segment. Such a course, known as a rhumb (or, mathematically, a loxodrome) is preferred in marine navigation because ships can sail in a constant compass direction, reducing the difficult, error-prone course corrections that otherwise would be needed frequently when sailing a different course. For distances small compared to the radius of the Earth, the difference between the rhumb and the technically shortest course, a great circle segment, is negligible, and even for longer distances, the simplicity of the constant bearing makes it attractive. As observed by Mercator, on such a course, the ship would not arrive by the shortest route, but it will surely arrive. Sailing a rhumb meant that all that the sailors had to do was keep a constant course as long as they knew where they were when they started, where they intended to be when they finished, and had a map in Mercator projection that correctly showed those two coordinates."

I am pumped for a legit Indiana Jones experience

@BrilliantBill thought the same thing 😁

@MrMagic hey it still lives on in my heart! In my top 3 IPs of all time. Though the latest movie was just okay, this is by far my number 1 on most anticipated games and has been since the teaser three years ago.

MachineGames did such a great job on the Wolfenstein games. I think this could be great!

In the Archeological world the Theory of The Great Circle is a line drawn 30° offset from the equator around the globe where very significant ancient sites coincidentally run in a straight line even though the distance between them lines up with the Fibinaci Sequence or Golden Ratio including The Great Pyramids Machu Pichu Easter Island and more

@xMightyMatt14x Don't get me wrong I loved the first 3 when I was a kid but after the last 2 movies barely anyone seems to care about Indi anymore, also I don't think most of the newer generations were ever that interested in the old movies that much. This game also has to be 3rd person otherwise it's already going to be a disappointment.

@K1LLEGAL or the Red Ring of Death ⭕

@UnusedBabyWipes 😮