If you search Google for our headline, you'll probably get almost 9,000 results. That gives an indication of how Digital Rights Management is perceived across the entertainment sector.

Yesterday Gabe Newell brought DRM out into the bright lights of mass media courtesy of the 2010 Game Developers Choice Award ceremony where he was recognised with the respected GDC Pioneer Award.

The introduction to the award will be of interest to gamers, and Gabe's acceptance speech is equally interesting if you want to know where gaming tech is headed, you'll not want to miss his speech.

Where the first round of applause came however, was when Gabe addressed games publishers, referring to DRM has a negative influence

There were actually only two rounds of spontaneous applause during Gabe's interesting speech, one for the DRM put down, and one when his auto-prompter failed.

Watch the speech here, (60 minutes in) , comment on Gabe's insight in our forums!

Ubisoft representative have stated that compensation is being planned for users affected by the Denial of Servcie attack that took Ubisoft's DRM authentication servers offline at the weekend. Exact details of the nature of the compensation that affected Assassins Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 gamers is expected later today.

Luckily Ubisoft recently also released the best quality promo trailer yet which looks great in mov format. Download the movie here and examine 20 seconds in for more Future Warriror hints.

The first hint points us to an important location for the Ghosts - Russian Federation Moscow.

Ubisoft have released a public beta through Steam for their brand new Real Time Strategy game R.U.S.E.

Try it out and let us know what you think in our RTS forums, where you can read the full press release. And to round it off, here's a 100Mb HD video download, hot off the press!

CVG.com are reporting that the Future Soldier scenario places the Ghosts fighting an ultranationalist group that's managed to depose the Russian president. Confirmation that HULC gear will feature in the game allowing the transportation of heavy equipment. However some fans of the series are hoping that reports of jumping ability for the Ghosts will prove inaccurate.

A full breakdown of the Playstation Magazine report will appear here next week! In the meantime, comments on what has been revealed above are welcome in our Playstation Future Soldier forum.

While some are questioning why Ubisoft seem to have been targeted while other publishers gaming servers remain unscathed, most in the gaming community have responded with derision focusing on Ubisoft's much criticised new DRM system.

And so the saga continues! One has to wonder if Ubisoft will also feel motivated to make an announcement once there new DRM is fully cracked.

Coming up we've some even more exciting updates, not least brand new forums complete with new features and a new fresh look on the way.

It'd be great to hear your feedback in our forums!

Electronic Arts have announced that their upcoming blockbuster of a game BF Bad Company 2, uses SecuROM to offer customers a choice, which includes an option to play offline. It's worth reading their explanation of how this will work for PC gamers, check it out.

Our GR:FS DRM discussion spans nine pages now, join in!

Ubisoft have moved to try and stem the uproar by clarifying a couple of points in this post in our forums. A CVG blog entry however explains just how potentially frustrating this system can be. 

The online petition in opposition to this anti-piracy initiative is gathering pace now, and even contains a signature from a high profile games developer.

PC Gamer simulated an interuption to their internet connection while in game and were immediately dropped from the game, losing all progress since the previous save point in the process. This confirms previous reports that in order to play Ubisoft's new games, a permanent internet connection must be available throughout the game session, even during single player games.

While Ubisoft may see this as the best answer to combat piracy, there is unanimous and universal condemnation of this anti-piracy measure that once again would seem to punish the paying customer.

If anyone supports these measures from Ubisoft, we'd love to hear your point of view in our forums, as so far it's all a one way debate! Join in here.

One aspect of his investigation is of course the highly controversial optical camo - already debunked by forums members as too far fetched in this cloak poll.

Discuss the trailer report in our Future Warrior forums. 

Full details of the send off, plus some important points to note if you do not want to miss out on DLC before the shut down are all on his blog. It's going to be a special few days so make sure you are ready to join!

Even here there is a poll to gauge fan feedback on the use of seemingly out of this world technology. Ubisoft are responding to this unrest with a short explanation on the technology where they hope to satisfy fans that the technology is indeed plausible. The optical camo feature will be up on the official site here shortly.

Once the news is up, post your feedback and impressions here.

Red Storm developed the original and ground breaking Ghost Recon back in 2001, and many of the same dev team are still working at Red Storm so this has to be good news for Ghost Recon purists!

Check it out on the brand new official Future Warrior site.

Download the full movie from our Future Soldier Downloads section.

It's a real teaser of a video that doesn't give much away at first glance other than confirmation of early speculation that the Ghosts wil employ the latest in invisible camo technology. The other split second images will be poured over and analysed down to the last pixel in our Future Soldier forums!

The report confirms Ubisofts commitment to existing major titles (like Ghost Recon) in preference to new ventures. Ubisoft also promise a "platform of online servcies" for PC titles. 

Interested in the financial stats? Download the 5 page PDF here.

Ghost Recon Future Soldier is now confirmed as the next title in the Ghost Recon series. Ubisoft mailed us their press release today including an image of the new logo.

Stating a "holiday 2010" release and a multiplayer beta, the press release promises a fresh gameplay experience for the series. A promo movie is expected shortly on Xbox Live, we'll have the web version up here shortly thereafter.

Read full details in our Ghost Recon Future Soldier forums, and post your feedback on the news and the new logo.

Dropship Horizon relive their favourite Ghost Recon missions in unique style, more details at their 15mm gaming website. Forum discussion here!

Considering that Ghost Recon Future Soldier is now officially the game worlds worst kept secret, there's a good chance Ubisoft are about to reveal details of what will be one of their biggest titles this year, and one that Ghost Recon fans have waited a very long time for!

Or, perhaps it is something totally unrelated - a new Rainbow Six....?

Rainbow Six forums this way, Ghost Recon Future Soldier this way...

Why is this, why would gamers settle for the gameplay of a shooter designed almost 10 years ago? Perhaps the answer lies in todays games as much as it does in the aging Ghost Recon. While the feature set of recent releases continues a diminishing trend, they start to appear like second rate games in comparison to Ghost Recon with its rich set of features and clever array of gameplay options. 

Perhaps this is why gamers are crying out for nothing more than Ghost Recon with better graphics. This yearning can be seen all over, not just within the Ghost Recon Community, but in other shooter game forums too...

"All I ask is ... Ghost Recon 1 with better graphics"

Agree or disagree, read our Ghost Recon Future Soldier forum and add to the debate!

On the weapons front we are expecting to see the XM-25's first official appearance in a PC Ghost Recon game. I say "official" because if you know where to look, this weapon has already been modded into the original Ghost Recon. The XM-25 is known as a Counter Defilade Target Engagement System. Defilade is of french origin meaning behind cover, and that's exactly what the XM-25 is designed to do, eliminate targerts concealed behind cover. You can see the XM-25 in CNN's video report now, and probably in Ghost Recon Future Soldier later this year.

On the gadget front, how about an exoskeleton for Ghost Recon 4? Man portable exoskeleton's are starting to reach the stage of deployment readiness, and are therefore entirely convievable for Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Lockheed Martin are investing heavily in their own HULC exoskeleton and we expect to see something along these lines in Ghost Recon 4. View photo's, data and a cool video at Lockheed's HULC site.

Discuss these and other possible Ghost Recon Future Soldier Technology in our GRFS forums.

Much like Relic with Company of Heroes, each time a Ubisoft game is started it will phone home using your internet connection to verify that it's legitimate. This will happen via existing Ubi or Uplay accounts.

There are pro's and cons to this method of verifying game sessions, so in our forums we have a Q/A from Ubisoft painting the positive side of the debate, and to kind of balance that out we have a slightly more cynical take from member krise madsen. Which is more accurate? You decide.