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 ...

Following the launch of Rocksmith in 2011, an instructional tool-meets-rhythm game that followed the wave of Guitar Hero and Rock Band games of the era, the development team at Ubisoft San Francisco ...

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 ...

Rocksmith 2014 Edition, which launched last fall for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Ubisoft announced the news today, saying the game–which it describes as ...

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 2014 uses the same cable to run your guitar into your computer as the original game. It would have been a right pain if not and an added cost that would have put me off upgrading till I saw ...

I'm no guitar hero. But after a weekend spent playing "Rocksmith 2014," I could be well on my way. "Rocksmith" came out in 2011, following in the footsteps of "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" in look if ...

The sequel to Ubisoft's guitar music video game, Rocksmith, has received so many changes from the original that Rocksmith 2014 is a "completely different game" from its predecessor, according to ...

Just as the industry was writing the epitaph of music playing games like Guitar Hero, Ubisoft announces Rocksmith, a game slated to launch in the fall that teaches users how to play guitar and include ...

In one of the timeliest strategic moves in the video game industry's recorded history, Ubisoft has announced an upcoming rhythm title from a totally new IP, called Rocksmith. The game lets players ...

I'm not a true video game enthusiast. There is one game, however, for which I have a nearly religious reverence (in fact, I actually maintain a whole blog about it here): Rocksmith. Admittedly this ...

The lights were low; the volume was high. The screaming solo runs coming from the stage matched the notes on the screen. Three would-be rock stars stood facing the cheering throng — one bass player, ...