You’d think that a picture of Marcus Fenix holding the dog tags of his downed squaddies would be nothing more than a pointer at the heartfelt story Gears 2 is set to tell.

But things are never that simple. Some clever ASCII-reading folk have taken the numbers shown on the tags (033-116-117-126-071) and translated them to “ESC-N-O-V-9″.

Sunday 9th November. Mark it in your diaries. Here’s the image:

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