Gaming website Kotaku.com has found a hint on the official
Gears of War webpage; a new image popped up today showing a number of dog tags, each with their own code on it. This code, once unscrambled, gives the release date. We will find out if November 9, 2008 is the official date for Gears of War 2 come next Monday once the Microsoft press conference (E3) has completed. Check out what Kotaku had to say below.
A new splash page at the official Gears of War web site may have just revealed the launch date of Epic Games' next. The Xbox 360 shooter was previously rumored to hit November 16, but it looks like Emergence Day for Gears of War 2 will actually be a week earlier. How do we know this? The dog tags being held on the splash page read 033-116-117-126-071. That, in ASCII octal values, translates to ESC-N-O-V-9. Sneaky, Epic, sneaky.
We imagine that we'll know, without a shadow of a doubt, exactly when Gears of War 2 will "escape" by next Monday, when Microsoft holds its E3 press conference. Still, it might not be a bad idea to schedule this as a sick day with your boss early as a courtesy.
