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 ...

One of the big criticisms leveled at rhythm-based guitar games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band was that they don't actually teach you to play guitar. Ignoring the fact that this was never the intention ...

Rocksmith has a ridiculous number of modes that offer guitar and bass instruction. It includes the in-depth Learn A Song that teaches you how to play popular songs, as well as Guitarcade, which ...

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 ...

If you've been gaming since the Xbox 360 era, then you may remember an innovative release called Rocksmith. Rocksmith taught users how to play guitar via a selection of licensed music and fun ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

Rocksmith is a video game that is going to teach you guitar. Not a fake, plastic toy with color-coded buttons or even some hybrid game controller. Guitar. Six strings and a fretboard. There’s no ...

Very recently, I rediscovered — no, fell in love all over again — with the video game that turns players into music maestros: Rocksmith. If you’ve never heard of it, Rocksmith is, for the most part, ...

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 ...