To me this right here is, if not a smoking one, at least a gun with a sweaty warm grip. Phil has the mental acuity of a child and pretending to suddenly not remember the very game you mentioned by name not 3 years ago is exactly what a kid caught in the proverbial cookie jar would do. Denial and hide on is DSP's bread and butter move and he will always use it because it always works on his followers. This asshole doesn't care if he is exposed, just that the idiots who pay him don't care.
He says "innocent until proven guilty" and refuses to exonerate himself by claiming there is no way to prove he is innocent, all the while people have compelling evidence to the contrary. So long as he can flag it as a detractor meme that is enough for his pay piggies to accept it as such. It reminds me of that movie Training Day, where the corrupt cop says, "it's not what you know, it's what you can prove". Only this time it's in reverse - it's not what you can prove it's what I pretend not to know.