From the plastic-instrument-littered graveyard of the rhythm game genre rose the original Rocksmith, a game that took the familiar note-highway interface of the Guitar Hero series and applied it to ...

I tried taking lessons. I tried reading guitar tabs online. The only thing that worked was Rocksmith. Music has long struck me as a kind of magic. In terms of my life essentials, it ranks only just ...

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Following the phenomenal success of games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, Ubisoft sensed an opportunity. If gamers went nuts for playing real rock songs on plastic guitars, why wouldn't they swoon for ...

Having already appeared on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, Ubisoft's virtual guitar tutor Rocksmith 2014 is now ready to jump to the next generation of gaming consoles, namely the Xbox One and ...

After the passage of enough time where the video game market became oversaturated with fake plastic instruments, the trend of pretending to be a rock star by shredding on five buttoned guitars was ...

Anyone can play guitar. Radiohead said that. Of course, their sentiment was less an encouraging call to ax's and more an acerbic attack on musical mediocrity – anyone can play guitar, but few of us ...

Rocksmith is the first and only game where players can plug any real guitar with a standard quarter-inch input jack, and play through an in-depth library of music including everything from the latest ...

Now that Rocksmith has two games with different music libraries, it has the chance to give Rocksmith+ a huge library that includes all the songs that were released on older versions. Players have ...

Ubisoft just announced that Rocksmith, the music rhythm game that teaches players how to play a real-life guitar, is getting a sequel during the publisher’s Ubisoft Forward E3 presentation. Rocksmith+ ...

When Rocksmith was released in 2011, it had all the ingredients of a gaming pie capable of satisfying kings of Guitar Hero and Rock Band controllers wanting to learn how to play a real instrument in a ...

If the concept of rhythm-game-cum-guitar-tutor Rocksmith has intrigued you, then there's a good chance you fall into the same category of guitarist that I do: a gamer who's fumbled behind the bike ...