Shoot Many Robots is a promising side-scrolling shooter, and a title we have been keeping an eye on. The game is scheduled to be released on the 360, PS3, and PC as a digital download, and it was just announced that it will be published by Ubisoft. This is not good news for those of us hoping to play the game on the PC. In fact, I tweeted something along those lines yesterday, which rankled Demiurge Studio's Albert Reed.

"Hey now, we did Mass Effect PC!" he responded. "Pop quiz: what site called it 'the way the game was meant to be played?'" He has us there, and in fact that quote has been on the official site for Demiurge Studios for a number of years. "We'll do it right, or we won't do it. I promise," he said.

Ubisoft seems to be openly antagonistic towards PC gaming these days, with last-minute delays hitting a number of big-name titles, and chokingly bad DRM forcing you to activate the game every time it's launched. The last victim was From Dust, a game that suffered all these issues, not to mention a lazy port. To make matters worse, Ubisoft mislead gamers about the nature of the DRM included with the game. It has now been announced the activation requirement will be patched out of the game, which makes sense: a working crack hit the Internet almost as soon as the game was released.

So here we are, with a game being published by a company with a terrible track record for PC releases, and a developer promising us the PC version will be up to snuff. We'll be sure to check back when the game is released in 2012.