Earlier this year publisher Activision announced the cancellation of all Guitar Hero and D.J. Hero projects leaving EA's Rockband as the most obvious rhythm based video game franchise still with a ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A lot of people really loved, and still love Guitar Hero, and for those people who would like to take their guitar playing to the next level, or rather learn how to play the guitar for real, then ...

Don’t get us wrong, because Rocksmith is from Ubisoft while the late Guitar Hero was stabbed in the back by Activision. What Rocksmith does better than similar titles is players use their own guitars.

When Rocksmith originally launched back in 2011, it looked to be the next step in the music games genre following the success of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Instead of players needing to learn how to ...

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 ...

The legacy of video games as teaching tools is not exactly a bright one. More often than not, such games get one try, and then they fade away, failed attempts to make something boring into something ...

Rocksmith 2014 is coined as a learning tool for fledgling guitar players. Newcomer Ray Willmot takes axe in hand and plays for a few weeks to see if it really can give him the skills to pay the bills.