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 ...

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 ...

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 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?

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, ...

Playing "Rocksmith" this weekend, I handed a guitar to a friend and watched him play through the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" a few times. Though a novice - he had never so much as played a song - ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who has owned or even played Rock Band has encountered that one friend who, despite numerous attempts to convince otherwise, absolutely refuses to believe that the game has any musical merit at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...