Rumor: Gears page hints GOW2 release as Nov 9

by Terrence Stasse { Jul 8th 2008 at 4:30PM }

Alright kiddies time for some sleuthing courtesy of the Gears of War Official Forums. The Gears site has a new splash page up (above) and in Marcus' hand are some Dog (Cog?) Tags. Immediately upon discovery, there was the speculation that this meant death and loss would play some larger part in the game's story. But then someone decided to take a closer look at the number sequence visible on the tag: 033-116-117-126-071.

Seemingly random right? Nope. Match those numbers with one of these ASCII tables, and you'll get yourself the following letter string: "ESC N O V 9". We'd love to beleive that this was simply thrown in there to mess with the community, but it seems to be too much of a coincidence to be something wholly meaningless. Is this an early "word" on the release date? We sure hope so.

Hit the break for a closer look at the tags.

[Thanks Laron Alexander]

Tags: epic, gears, gears-of-war, gears-of-war-2, microsoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brave @ Jul 8th 2008 4:34PM

Four years after Halo 2 :p

awww They go great together

dongcopter @ Jul 8th 2008 4:36PM

I before E except after C

Terrence Stasse @ Jul 8th 2008 4:38PM

La Li Lu Le Lo

Kevin Gass @ Jul 8th 2008 4:38PM

I love these little mind games :)

MDJ2010 @ Jul 8th 2008 4:40PM

A couple of UK retail sites including Play have had the game listed as this release date for about 2 months

ccc @ Jul 8th 2008 4:44PM

Thats a sweet pic.

LuckyHaskins @ Jul 8th 2008 4:48PM

Hmmm, a Sunday?

Hala Madrid!! (Madrileno hasta la muerte!) @ Jul 8th 2008 4:49PM

I call shenanigans!

Rick @ Jul 8th 2008 4:51PM

Doubt it's a Sunday release. Could the numbers mean something else?

Jon @ Jul 8th 2008 5:04PM

yeah for o dienasty

SadisticHam @ Jul 8th 2008 5:15PM

I thought this was a confirmed release date? o.0

Most retailers and several news sites have reported it's due for 9th.

ZenGaijin @ Jul 8th 2008 6:34PM

I really want cogtags like that, maybe as a preorder bonus.

DaxterKing @ Jul 8th 2008 7:21PM

Damn Sunday releases, Saturday would be much more convinent for everyone. Nintendo already tried to be bigger than God, dont do it Epic!

Urza @ Jul 8th 2008 10:34PM

Maybe it has nothing to do with the game.. maybe it's the date the Gears 2 website goes live. :P

supersalo @ Jul 8th 2008 11:54PM

Doubt it's the 9th.

Look at the preorder page on Xbox: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/buyNow/g/gearsofwar2/

Circuit City says the 11th.
Amazon and Gamecrazy both say 11/30.
Gamestop says the 3rd. So, who knows?

Alex @ Jul 9th 2008 4:27AM

While I was expecting a Nov. 18th release date, this is great news but slightly bad also. I want to get Seriously BEFORE Gears 2, and giving me 9 less days to do it is mean.
(PS, I need about 6, 500 to get 10 000.)

MDJ2010 @ Jul 9th 2008 8:38AM

That could be very tough. I had to get 14,000 kills before it unlocked for me, and believe me I am not alone. Then again it could unlock before you get to 10,000. It's one of the most glitched achievements on the 360. Some people say that kills didn't count if you quit early (not true), some people say its if the teams are uneven at the end of the match (not true), some people say its if anyone quits a game before the end (not true). Kills don't count if the host quits, but I never missed out on 4000 kills from the host quitting. So its just a bit of a random number that ends up being your Seriously goal.