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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

For many of us, playing the air guitar is the closest you'll get to strumming your favourite tunes. But now, thanks to a new videogame called Rocksmith, even the most musically challenged can learn ...

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 ...

It's great to listen to Alice in Chains perform, but how cool would it be to be able to play like guitarist Jerry Cantrell? The musician was on hand at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los ...

Rocksmith 2014 uses real guitars. The original Rocksmith guitar video game sold 1.5 million copies when it debuted in 2011. But for its sequel, Rocksmith 2014, French video game publisher Ubisoft ...

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Music-based games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, which let you play along to popular songs with fake instruments, once ruled the video game industry. They raked in billions of dollars in sales in ...

Do you remember the first Guitar Hero game? It was a breakout smash hit. There were literally zero games like it on the market. Plus it was addictive, fun multiplayer, and allowed millions of people ...

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 ...