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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GamesBeat: With Guitar Hero giving way to the dance craze, everyone seems to assume that’s where the interest in music games went: from guitars to dancing with Just Dance (a Ubisoft game). The numbers ...