Unlike most of Ubisoft's recent major releases such as Assassin's Creed 2, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Splinter Cell: Conviction, the upcoming strategy game R.U.S.E. will not be utilizes the publisher's controversial DRM. As it turns out, the game is going to empoy Steam. In other words, players won't be required to stay logged on to the Internet to experience the single-player campaign.

"When R.U.S.E. is released in September, it will benefit from Valve's Steamworks API to offer the best community experience to players," Ubisoft revealed in a statement. "Consequently, a Steam account and Internet connection will be required to activate the game, as per Steam policy. For this reason, R.U.S.E. will not use the Ubisoft protection. Single player can be played offline," the publisher explained.