Despite mentioning in a recent post that I think the update will occur Thursday and that we shouldn’t get our bows in a quiver, there has recently been quite a bit of speculation that there might not be a Valentine’s Day update at all, and that the next update would instead be for level 39 due to the calendar already being solidly on the 5th of February.

While it’s all fine and candy that I told you not to sweat it, you’ve been wanting some solid proof that Cupid has got his bow pulled back ready to deliver some TSTO love to our devices sooner rather than later. Well, finally, there has been a gentle teasing that will leave you begging for more. That’s right – the hint didn’t come from someone mining the files, or from an insider working on the game, but from a small little update seemingly from EA itself.

As you can see from the screen grab above from Eric Borovay (click to see it closer), when you go to download the game from the App Store, the icon for the game was changed to Homer walking with his Love Finger instead of running for his life to escape the Ominous Finger. However, upon checking up on this 10 minutes after the image was posted, the icon was already changed back to the current icon of the fleeing Homer.

If this brand new, never-before-seen icon does indeed come from EA, it tells us two wonderfully lovely things: One, that the Valentine’s Day Update will definitely happen, and two, it is imminent.

The last time this occurred was right before the Christmas event update dropped. After the Christmas icon was first spotted, the update went live within 24 hours.

So take it easy today and rest up your love tapper – hopefully there will be a lot of fingering (…err tapping) in your near future!

Update by feelingblind: I found the official image in high-resolution and moved it to the screenshot.