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Ubisoft Reflections founder Martin Edmonson has defended“Always On” DRM, which requires gamers to permanently be online so they can constantly prove their innocence to Ubisoft. DespiteDriver: San Franciscorelaxing its DRMin the face of PC gamer backlash, Edmonson is still a big believer in the system. “You have to do something,” he argued to Eurogamer. “It’s just, simply, PC piracy is at the most incredible rates. This game cost a huge amount of money to develop, and it has to be, quite rightly, quite morally correctly, protected....

Here’s a look at few more of the PS3/360 games of E3 09. Highlights include some time withGod of War III,Left 4 Dead 2, andProject Cube; a really kick-ass lookingGeometry Warsrip-off from Square-Enix that is not shy about throwing blood all over your face. Come to think of it, if measured by blood splatters per second,Project Cubewas probably the most violent game at the show. I think I love it....

BetweenProfessor Layton and the Last Specterand nowKirby: Mass Attack— releasing on September 19 of this year — the DS is still hanging in there. In the latest sidescrollingKirbyadventure, HAL Laboratory explores the notion of our beloved pink hero being split into ten separate puffballs. Adorable hijinks ensue. I wasn’t entirely sold on the concept until all of those little guys were crammed in a massive snowball. And then the shmup part came on....

Next up on the E3 circuit is Electronic Arts. On Monday, the company will have its 2011 briefing, which can be seen on Spike TV orviewed onlineat 12:30 pm PDT. As for which games are being shown off, here’s the list, direct from EA. That’s a lot of sports! Someone start up the Samit signal.

Activision has finally decided to spill the entire track listing for its upcomingGuitar Hero Smash Hits, one of the five “Hero”games scheduled for the remainder of 2009. Taking the “best” songs from the previous versions of theGuitar Heroseries,Smash Hitshas an amazing soundtrack. As the name implies, they’re almost entirely “smash hits,” with few exceptions. It’s also important to note that all of the tracks are masters, and in some cases live tracks....

The folks at the Entertainment Software Association took a trip to Mexico recently. They came back with nice tans, a slight margarita hangover, oh… and 91,200 copies of illegal videogames. The ESA raided a massive marketplace in Guadalajara, Mexico, and it was there that they seized the 91k of illegal game copies. Also found were 130,000 videogame cover inserts and 3,200 empty game boxes. With the help of Mexican law enforcement, they managed to seize a whopping 20 tons of illegal game goods....

We’re pretty excited aboutDeadly Premonition, the $19.99 horror game coming out in 2010 courtesy of Ignition. Do we think it will be particularly good? No, we do not. In fact, we’re kind of hoping it will be hilariously bad. The ESRB hasrecently ratedthe game, not only shedding light on some hilariously tasteless game details, but also confirming the title for PS3. On of the most interesting details is the fact that you get to play a serial killer during one stage: “In one flashback sequence, players are able to control the villain (the Raincoat Killer) as he uses an axe to kill the townsfolk — toxic gas has left them in a deranged state; the grainy black-and-white sequence depicts the townsfolk emitting red blood-spurts when hit, as their bodies disappear....

Quick, what was your favorite weapon fromFallout 3, excluding all items from the add-ons? What about the Alien Blaster? Anyone? The thing was an absolute beast, until you realized there was only a limited supply of ammo for it in the Capital Wasteland. Thankfully, one of the upcoming DLC packs, “Mothership Zeta,” will be not only provide more ammo for the Alien Blaster, but it’s set to add more high-tech alien weapons since, you know, the whole story revolves around you being abducted....

Oh my goodness! Look at that! It’sAssassin’s Creed‘s Ezio inPrince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. What sorcery is this!? Ubisoft explains how to get the skin, along with a challenge room, through its in-game Uplay rewards system. It’s rather easy, mostly just creating an account and playing the game to unlock the rewards. But Ubisoft wants to make sure you figure it out, so I’m going to demand you watch the above video so you don’t make any mistakes....

People talk a lot aboutFinal Fantasy XIIIandXIII Versus, but the rank outsider in Square Enix’sFabula Nova Pretentiousseries is by farXIII Agito, the handheld game about which little is known. It seems that not many care about Agito, but at leastFamitsugives a stuff and has somenew screensof this ambitous sounding portable game. As is typical of Square Enix, the graphics look beautiful by PSP standards. I do love how much support the company gives the PlayStation Portable, which is great for those of us who travel a lot and don’t always feel like indulging in shoehorned stylus controls....

We’ve heard a lot about this Japanese, boob-focused, 2D brawler for the 3DS in the past, but up until now, we haven’t seen much of how the game plays. Its publisher has promotedSenran Kagurawithwebsites,promotional art,energy drinks, and teenage girls doing stuff, but the heart of the game, its combat system, has been more or less a mystery up until this point. That had me worried that the game wasn’t going to be very fun, which would be disappointing considering the game comes to us from the publisher of one of the Wii’s great 2D brawlers,Muramasa: The Demon Blade....

Orcs aren’t unlike you or me. If you prick them, do they not bleed? If you tickle them, do they not laugh? If you shoot fireballs at them by way of magic gauntlets that shoot fireballs, do they not go up in flames and then die of third-degree burns and asphyxiation? Robot Entertainment’s upcomingOrcs Must Die!is a third-person action tower defense strategy title that has you (surprise!) killing orcs. Today, the developer is introducing the Fire Bracers, which allow players to set up walls of fire or directly burn orcs to a crisp....

It looks like our friends over atScrewAttack’s Hard Newshave gotten their hands on the latest issue ofGame Informera little early. You know, the one withAssassin’s Creed 2on the cover? Knowing how excited we were about the game, they were nice enough to pass along some key information on Ubisoft’s game from theGame Informercover story. OK, OK… they pretty much passed alongallof the info. The key details are that the game will take place in Italy, as expected, with locations like Saint Marks Basilica and The Grand Canal included....