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 ...

The music gaming genre has been hit hard recently, but game developer Ubisoft will unveil Rocksmith--which will allow gamers to plug in a real guitar--later this year. CNET contributor Don Reisinger ...

On Tuesday, Ubisoft announced a release date for Rocksmith Plus, a service that helps aspiring musicians learn to play acoustic, electric, and bass guitar. Rocksmith takes the concept of Guitar Hero ...

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 ...

I'll be the first to admit, I'm not that great a guitar player. Sure, I felt like some sort of demi-god playing the plastic button slapping guitars of Guitar Hero and Rock Band but in the back of my ...

If “Guitar Hero” was the spunky teenager who made music gaming fun, “Rocksmith” is his older, cooler brother in a distressed leather jacket. “Rocksmith” (Ubisoft, for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, ...

Rocksmith allows you to use any guitar as a music game controller, and for interactive music lessons. That's so awesome if you have an electric guitar! But what if you don't have a guitar? What then?

The music game genre was recently deemed too risky by Guitar Hero and DJ Hero owner Activision, who scrapped its music games business and laid off large numbers of people at its musical studios.

Rocksmith isn't the first videogame to allow you to plug an actual stringed instrument into your Xbox 360 or PS3 – both Rock Band 3 and Power Gig: Rise of the Six String offered ways to play with ...

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 ...

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 ...