Over at
megagames.com they have spotted that for the official Gears 2 website a splash screen has been added of a picture with a soldier holding COG tags in his hand, one of which has the numbers 033-116-117-126-071 which would seem like random numbers but if you compare them to the standard ascii table you get the numbers ESC-N-O-V-9. Does this mean Gears 2 will follow the original in releasing in November? It looks to be that way at least until Epic says otherwise.