GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. LOS ANGELES--When news that Ubisoft was developing a realism-based guitar game called Rocksmith broke in March, it was noted that a special Gibson ...

Rocksmith has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of new guitar players. On the surface it may look like a Guitar Hero or Rock Band knock-off, but the simple act of using a real guitar is ...

Full disclosure: I'm not a very good guitarist. I spent my high school days clumsily banging around a Fender Strat snagged for 100 bucks at a pawn shop, looking up tabs online and learning simple ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. LOS ANGELES--Though the Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises are taking a break in 2011, Ubisoft is pushing ahead with its own realism-based guitar ...

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When Rocksmith originally launched back in 2011, it looked to be the next step in the music games genre following the success of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Instead of players needing to learn how to ...

During the incredible rise -- and subsequent rapid decline -- of rhythm games, a few aspiring plastic-instrument aficionados wondered what it be like to take their skills to the next level and learn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. While Activision Blizzard is running away from music games by shutting ...

Ubisoft’s 10-year-old Rocksmith franchise will become an “interactive music learning subscription service,” with its next entry, Rocksmith Plus. That’s according to an email that guitar maker Gibson ...