Indiana Jones: Has Todd Howard left any clues about the project for months already?

Not even 24 hours ago the gaming sector was literally shaken by the surprise announcement of a new game dedicated to Indiana Jones, Manufactured by Bethesda in person and developed by Lucasfilms Games in collaboration with MachineGames. This very welcome return made all lovers of the film saga dedicated to the famous archaeologist go crazy with happiness, who, invaded by the hype, began to fathom the web profiles of the most famous faces of Bethesda in search of some hidden clues left by the developers already in the past few months. After a few hours, in fact, a small reference to this historic franchise was found in the studio of Todd Howard, one of the best-known faces in the industry, which he showed on a bookshelf in the background of a Zoom call a few months ago the Ark of the Covenant, ancient artifact on which "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is based, the first chapter of the Indiana Jones saga.

What's insane… during @majornelson podcast with @DCDeacon @ XboxP3 & Todd Howard. Ark of the Covenant was right there in front of our eyes! ? pic.twitter.com/VswQkUgJ1q

- ?⛓DblackRaven⛓? Octopath Traveler (@ Dblackraven1) January 12, 2021

As soon as the news began to circulate on the web, many began to hypothesize that now every great project can be anticipated or suggested by small clues like this or how it did Cory Balrog with his tweets anticipating the arrival of God of War: Ragnarok for months before its announcement. To try to stop or at least contain the tide of fans looking for further calls in the homes of Bethesda employees, he thought about it Pete Hines in person, who in response to the same tweet reported above replied that this clue was absolutely random and that there is no hidden 'teaser' of any kind in employees' offices or homes. According to Hines, in fact, Howard is only a huge fan of Indiana Jones and for this reason he has a gigantic collection of objects dedicated to this brand at his house and that behind this shot there is no hint of any kind of clue about the project.

Just to be clear, this is not anyone "doing" anything. Todd is a lifelong fan of Indiana Jones. He owns a lot of cool Indiana Jones stuff. He's not displaying it for anyone's benefit or because of this announce. He's just a huge fan of Indiana Jones.

- Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) January 12, 2021