Our review of the original Rocksmith lauded the technology that underpinned the whole experience, namely that you could connect an electric guitar directly to your game console or PC, and it worked.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 2014 uses the same cable to run your guitar into your computer as the original game. It would have been a right pain if not and an added cost that would have put me off upgrading till I saw ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The new versions of Rocksmith 2014 feature a range of updates and improvements over the last-generation counterparts, the first of which is resolution ...

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 ...

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 ...