Ubisoft announced details today about it’s upcoming strategy game, R.U.S.E.. At E3, Ubisoft showed R.U.S.E. in closed doors on a Microsoft Surface table. Now Ubisoft announces that they will be using the multitouch capabilities of Windows 7 to bring it to gamers’ homes.

“Making images interactive is at the core of the video game industry, and over the last few years we have been striving to make this interactivity as intuitive and direct as possible. Today, thanks to Windows 7 and its full multitouch support, the barrier between the player and the image has been removed: they become one”, said John Parkes, EMEA marketing director. “As a strategy game relying on a clean and intuitive interface built around the zoom, R.U.S.E. was the perfect candidate for Ubisoft to demonstrate how multitouch improves and streamlines the way games are played”.

Ubisoft is working closely with Microsoft to make sure the experience is immersive and works well. R.U.S.E. should launch on touch-enabled devices running Windows 7 in Q1 2010.

“Windows 7 was designed with the customer in mind,” said Mike Ybarra, general manager of Windows Product Management at Microsoft. “We are pleased to see how Ubisoft has leveraged multi-touch in R.U.S.E to bring a new and dynamic gaming experience to our mutual customers.”

Here is the R.U.S.E. video from E3:

I love this concept. Mostly because while I love playing Air Hockey against Matt, we get so competitive that it isn’t long before pucks go flying through the air and hit someone. Ask Dawn’s husband about that some time..eek!

This 103-inch Panasonic plasma display transformed into a multi-touch air hockey table, using Uicentric’s U-Touch overlay technology. The table was created for the ISE 2009 conference in Amsterdam.