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 ...

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, ...

From the plastic-instrument-littered graveyard of the rhythm game genre rose the original Rocksmith, a game that took the familiar note-highway interface of the Guitar Hero series and applied it to ...

A blog post on Ubiblog announced this week that Ubisoft San Francisco would want the latest title in their Rocksmith franchise – Rocksmith 2014 – to be a ” fully responsive personal teacher”. “In the ...

Ubisoft San Francisco wants Rocksmith 2014 Edition to be a “fully responsive personal teacher,” and a post on the Ubiblog today outlines the Lesson system’s expansion in the sequel. In the original ...

Fun they may be, but one of the problems with video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band is that they don’t actually teach you to play an instrument. You can invest hundreds of hours getting good at ...

Rocksmith 2014 has a new video available which shows how the 80 lessons in the game will work. It't not all about riffing: you'll learn how to hold a pick, tune your guitar, and more advanced ...

When Rocksmith was released in 2011, it had all the ingredients of a gaming pie capable of satisfying kings of Guitar Hero and Rock Band controllers wanting to learn how to play a real instrument in a ...

During the incredible rise -- and subsequent rapid decline -- of rhythm games, a few aspiring plastic-instrument aficionados wondered what it be like to take their skills to the next level and learn ...

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 ...

Take a look at this Lessons Trailer which dives into the advanced guitar teaching Rocksmith 2014 Edition provides the player.

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