Epic Gets Clever with Gears of War 2 Release Date
- Scribbled on July 8th, 2008 by Jonathon Howard
- Filed in Microsoft Xbox 360, Release Date(s), Rumor Mill, Shooter
If you mosy on over to GearsofWar.com right now you’ll see a nice splash page, with some pretty good looking pre-rendered images. If that was all you noticed and clicked through, you missed some very important material embedded in that image.
If you look closely at the COGS that are dangling in that hand you’d see the following serial number: 033-116-117-126-0711. Again, that doesn’t tell you much, how is that important? The folks over at Kotaku have decoded that serial number though (I don’t know how) they probably ran it through different things until something popped out that made sense. Well in ASCII octal code that translates into ESC-N-O-V-9!
This means, if it is what it appears to be, that Gears of War 2 will come out a week sooner than expected! Now November is still a long way off but a week early is a week early and the little puzzle Epic made for us to solve was nice too, though a little easy.
Regardless of whether it means what we think it means I’m sure Microsoft isn’t going to be coy and clever about the release date at E3 next week, the boys from Redmond aren’t known for subtlety…
(Thanks, Kotaku.)
July 9th, 2008 at 3:09 am
That’s pretty sneaky.