Ubisoft Goes Green.

When was the last time you actually read the manuals that come in games? The controls are displayed on the screen, we have tutorial levels that break down the game to you, and killing tress is just not hip anymore. Ubisoft is going to be the biggest trend setter of the year, by being done with the paper manuals that come with their games.

Ubisoft states that the in game instructions will be more robust and will be better for the environment and gamers alike.

According to Joystiq:

Internal Ubisoft numbers indicate that manufacturing one ton of paper used to create game manuals uses two tons of wood from 13 trees, enough energy to heat an average home for a year, 13,000 gallons of wastewater and 6,000 pounds of carbon dioxide.

Along with doing away with manuals, Ubisoft is teaming with Technimark, Inc. to create a 100 percent-recycled polypropylene "ecoTech" DVD case, which will debut with the PC release of Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Via Twitter Cliff Blezinski agrees whole heartedly.

So do I Cliff, so do I.