Not exactly news, but still noteworthy...

Reviewer gives Assassin's Creed 2 near-perfect score, says don't buy it.

It’s brilliant. Don’t buy it. The copy protection of Assassin’s Creed II requires you to be connected to publisher Ubisoft’s servers every moment you play. Any interruption to that connection kicks you out and erases all the progress you’ve made since the last checkpoint. We cannot wholly recommend a game that imposes such stringent and potentially problematic restrictions on paying customers without good reason.
Seriously... a 9/10, and yet he still tells people to not buy the game. Methinks the review scores are a tad screwed up.