IGN yesterday caught up with studio vice president of Epic Games Mark Rein, to find out what caused the break in the PC version Gears of War, apparently it wasn’t DRM but instead Cheat detection.

“The online cheat detection features in Gears of War for Windows are based on digital signatures. Well, we made an embarrassing mistake: we signed the executable with a certificate that expired in a way that broke the game.

“We’re working with Microsoft to re-sign the binaries properly, and hope to have this fixed very soon. We know how much this situation sucks, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

“In the mean time a work-around for this is to set your computer’s date back to a date before today.”

Could they just be covering themselves to prevent backlash from anti-DRM groups or is it the truth? Either way it makes them look pretty foolish.

Source: IGN