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 ...

Ubisoft’s new Rocksmith 2014 Edition may be a game, but it’s also a covert masterpiece in music education that can legitimately teach you to play the guitar and help you improve your skills and ...

Video games have long plundered music making as a rich vein of entertainment. Games as diverse as Guitar Hero, Elite Beat Agents, Jam with the Band and Rhythm Thief use a range of technology to trick ...

(10-17) 11:02 PDT -- Each day that his employees worked on "Rocksmith," a new video game from Ubisoft, Laurent Detoc would stop by the creative director's desk to pose a question. "Do you know your ...

With Rocksmith's release date moving ever closer, it's time to draw on everything we've learnt so far and channel it into that one killer performance. Last month we added chord play to our repertoire, ...

If you are thinking of learning to play the guitar you may be interested to know that the remastered Rocksmith 2014 Edition has today launched and is now available for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Rocksmith for iOS is now available as an iPad app on the App Store in Canada as part of what we ...

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, ...

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 ...

As a self-taught guitar player who can strum a few tunes averagely but has lost the motivation to play over the last few years, Rocksmith 2014 is a breath of fresh air. In terms of skill progression I ...

As musical novices, last month's Rocksmith lessons were limited to learning the basics, which covered everything from holding the guitar and how to strum, to playing riffs and performing solos - badly ...