The age of the plastic guitars is over, thanks to the death of the fad-like Guitar Hero and Rock Band games. Now it’s time for the age of real guitars in video games. Above: Nao Higo and Nick Bonardi ...

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 been around since 2011, beginning as an alternative to the five button rhythm guitar craze, set apart by the fact that it lets players use their own real six strings as the controller, ...

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?

A new trailer for Rocksmith 2014 Edition focuses on its comprehensive new "Lessons" mode designed to teach players how to rock the six-string. Rocksmith 2014 has over eighty new individual lessons ...

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 ...

Rocksmith 2014 is coined as a learning tool for fledgling guitar players. Newcomer Ray Willmot takes axe in hand and plays for a few weeks to see if it really can give him the skills to pay the bills.

If you've been gaming since the Xbox 360 era, then you may remember an innovative release called Rocksmith. Rocksmith taught users how to play guitar via a selection of licensed music and fun ...

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For many of us, playing the air guitar is the closest you'll get to strumming your favourite tunes. But now, thanks to a new videogame called Rocksmith, even the most musically challenged can 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 ...

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