Wolfenstein developer MachineGames is working on something that probably isn't about getting your favourite protein shake ingredient into bed.

Bethesda boss Pete Hines has made a comment on the new project in the works at MachineGames, developer of Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.

"MachineGames has been hard at work on something, which I can tell you I have played," Hines said during the Kinda Funny Gamescast, as transcribed by Gamespot.

"It is f**king bananas. And I can't wait to show what it actually is."

Whatever it "actually" is, we confess a moment's disappointment that it's not about having sex with fruit. That's un under-leveraged niche, probably.

Levity aside, Bethesda is generally pretty locked down PR-wise, so Hines commenting now probably means we'll hear something about the new project in the near-ish future - possibly at E3 2017, after Prey releases in May and the publisher is ready to ramp up its next big thing.

Although Bethesda tends to take it one thing at a time these days, we have been expecting a Wolfenstein reveal thanks to a an E3 2016 tease.

Shown just before the Quake Champions E3 2016 trailer, the tease showed a C:/ file directory with a bunch of filenames related to games in iD Software franchises. Of particular note were three entries in a row - New_Order, Old_Blood and New_Colossus. The release dates for Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood were shown next to their respective entries, while New_Colossus was the only filename with an empty release date field.

So this copulating foodstuff game may well be Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. Both previous MachineGames Wolfenstein releases were well-received and contained content you might describe as pretty intense, even if The Old Blood did go under the radar a little bit.

It could also be something entirely new from the Swedish team, but as Gamespot noted, "The New Colossus" is the title of a sonnet recited by Wolfenstein protag BJ Blazkowicz in The New Order - and also famously partially inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.