Marshmello has quite a lot to answer for. After playing a DJ set inside Fortnite back in February, just showing up and playing a football game on Twitch was no longer enough for pop stars.

It is clearly good that musicians all have broader ambitions here, but they also have to accept that whatever they do will always be compared to what has passed before and come with a “following in the steps of Marshmello with his DJ set in Fortnite” caveat in there somewhere. So without further ado…

Following in the steps of Marshmello with his DJ set in Fortnite, US skatepunk band The Offspring have played a virtual concert within World Of Tanks. (It is a massively multiplayer game based around military combat that has been going since 2011 and not, we are saddened to report, a massive shop just selling fishtanks.)

It was part of a bigger push by the game’s developer called Tank Festival, made up of a variety of sub-events, which runs until 7th October. The band’s virtual show will be accessible by the game’s players until then.

“When the World of Tanks guys approached us with the idea of an in-game concert, we thought, ‘Hell yeah, let’s do it!’,” said Dexter Holland of the band in a press statement. “Video games are cool but video games where you can blow stuff up are even cooler.”

The band played five songs during their virtual set – yes, they did play ‘Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)’ – and their sound does, for the most part, work as the audio backdrop to computer-generated tanks smashing things.

None of this is going to turn the world on its head, but it does a good job of being that part of the Venn diagram where “interest in a particular genre of game” and “interest in a particular genre of music” overlap quite nicely.