Ubisoft launched its Rocksmith guitar-learning game in 2011, just as the faux guitar video game craze started by Guitar Hero seemed be at its end. Above: Rocksmith 2014 uses real guitars. But ...

Rocksmith has a ridiculous number of modes that offer guitar and bass instruction. It includes the in-depth Learn A Song that teaches you how to play popular songs, as well as Guitarcade, which ...

Developed exclusively for Rocksmith, this guitar converts the guitar's signal from analogue to digital and allows it to be recognised by your console. Our teacher for the evening was Claire, who has ...

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 finally ready to embark on the European leg of its tour after last year's successful North American launch. Shunning plastic peripherals in favour of the real thing, Ubisoft's teaching ...

Music-based games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, which let you play along to popular songs with fake instruments, once ruled the video game industry. They raked in billions of dollars in sales in ...

Ubisoft’s new interactive trainer Rocksmith, which lets you plug in any real guitar with a standard quarter-inch jack and strum on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, strikes a novel chord by teaching mastery ...

Rocksmith is a video game that is going to teach you guitar. Not a fake, plastic toy with color-coded buttons or even some hybrid game controller. Guitar. Six strings and a fretboard. There’s no ...

Very recently, I rediscovered — no, fell in love all over again — with the video game that turns players into music maestros: Rocksmith. If you’ve never heard of it, Rocksmith is, for the most part, ...

Learning to play the guitar is extremely rewarding but can be very frustrating. As a self-taught guitarist who spent many years getting into bad habits and feeling like I’d hit a brick wall and couldn ...

News of the title, which will feature an electric guitar and songs from the Rolling Stones and Nirvana, comes on the heels of Activision's pulling the plug on "Guitar Hero." By Paul Bond A little more ...