Ubisoft have today revealed that their upcoming strategy title R.U.S.E. will support the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7, providing you have a compatible screen of course. I suspect this might be the beginning of a trend in PC games, but I'm usually wrong. Anyway, the trailer below shows multi-touch in action.

"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 collaborating closely with Microsoft to deliver immersive and new experiences to gamers on touch-enabled devices running on Windows 7 when R.U.S.E. launches 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."