If you visit the official Gears of War 2 website, you will be greeted by the image shown above. While Epic thankfully decided to steer clear of any drawn out “ice reveal” publicity stunts (seriously, who does that?), it is believed that the image offers up a hidden clue to the games release date.

The image below reveals what appears to be the following digits on the dog tag: 033-116-117-126-071. Alone these numbers mean absolutely nothing, but 1up believes that the ASCII values translate into ESC-N-O-V-9. If true, it is very likely that the tag is hinting at an “escape” of some sort on November 9th, 2008. Read more…

Marcus Fenix would not be caught dead wearing that shirt

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That said, I am just NOW getting a chance to sit down and watch the leaked UT3 Xbox 360 Gears of War 2 exclusive multiplayer video. The footage was originally intended to be a bonus, available only to those who bought the upcoming Unreal Tournament 3 game for the Xbox 360, however as things often do, it found its way on to the web.

If you haven’t seen the video yet, here’s your chance to process it along with my impressions after the jump. Read more…

Well, when we sat down with Mark Rein and the rest of the newly formed PC Alliance at this years GDC, we wondered if his loyalty to the PC would extend beyond the confines of the Moscone Center. However, his recent comments in response to a particular bayonet wielding designer may help to answer that question. Read more…

As you may have noticed, Day Three exploits are going up a little later than usual. Unfortunately, we had a run-in with the Blaznatz chewing up our bandwidth, so we were unable to get a good connection. Damn him and his chainsaw bayonet…

We’ve decided to combine our day three info with day four, which would officially make this Ripten’s GDC 08 Coverage: Day Seven. Read on for all the goodness. Read more…

Cliffy B has just announced at GDC 2008 that Gears of War 2 will in fact be released in November 2008. Read more…

What the hell do you mean he ain’t out here?

These days, everyone is looking for dirt on Gears of War 2, and getting a hold of CliffyB would be a good place to start … if you can find him. Read more…

This doesn’t look like Santa Monica … are you sure this is the way to E3?

Yesterday we reported that a rumor was going around regarding a sequel to the Gears of War game debuting at E3. We put an email into Cliffy B. at Epic late last night looking for a response regarding the matter, when we saw that a UK site (link here) was reporting today that Epic VP, Mark Rein flat out denied the rumor. Rein was quoted saying… Read more…