Here’s the dilemma: your boss is getting a kind of lifetime achievement award and you’ve been asked to contribute to a video montage bigging them up. Shouldn’t be hard. But what do you wear? That’s the issue.
Go smart? No, too formal, these are video games we’re talking about. But you want to keep some kind of professionalism about you. You are the managing director of Bethesda Game Studios after all.
Got it! You’ll go on-brand. You’ve got that T-shirt, remember? New owner Microsoft will love it – that Phil Spencer, he’s all about a well-placed tee. It’s a win-win. You can look professional while promoting your new game Starfield at the same time. Bin-go. What could possibly go wrong?
👍 Good t-shirt Mr. @DCDeacon
🎉 We need 2 or 3 pic.twitter.com/1MOSXZKstn— 🍻JJ&MrOrange 🚀Starfield es mi rpg, nada me falta (@JJMrOrange) November 4, 2020
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Whoops! Shouldn’t have jinxed it. Forgot to think about the logo on the sleeve, didn’t you? People haven’t seen that before, that space agency kind of logo with the stars and what is probably a planet underneath. Oh no, wait, they have! Only, when they saw it, it was on the arm of a character in an unverified Starfield screenshot earlier this year.
You didn’t just validate it, did you?
Note: Bethesda hasn’t confirmed any of this. No-one has confirmed the logo on Ashley Cheng’s arm, in the Todd Howard Develop Star Award video (sleuthed by Reddit user Rynderend), is the same logo on the arm on the character in the leaked screenshot. Hell of a coincidence, though, isn’t it?