62w ago - Creative Director Paul Cross of the Rocksmith Team has shared a video today demonstrating how to play real guitar on your PlayStation 3 with Rocksmith.

To quote: My name is Paul Cross and I am the Creative Director on the Rocksmith Team.

My previous projects include Burnout, Skate and No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle - and I want give you a little bit of background on Rocksmith, a music game that lets you plug a real guitar into your PS3 and play along to a great list of well-known rock songs when it comes to Europe this September.

The project started in early 2008 when Ubisoft started talking to a company called Game Tank. These guys had a tech demo that allowed the player to plug in any real guitar into a PS3, and the game would tell them if they were playing the right notes at the right times. Ubisoft liked the demo so much that they bought the company!

When Nao Higo, Sr. Producer and I first started on what was to become Rocksmith in October 2009, it was a tech demo called 'Guitar Rising' that featured sideways scrolling tablature and a number of difficulty levels you could select from. Here's a promo vid of Guitar Rising from way back in the day:

153w ago - Content Producer for SCEE James Gallagher has let us know that two new SingStar titles are coming out at the end of the year - SingStar Dance and SingStar Guitar for use with Sony's upcoming PlayStation Move motion controller.

To quote: The SingStar team must be used to sore throats at the end of E3 and this year they can expect weary limbs and achy wrists as well after three days demonstrating SingStar Dance and SingStar Guitar.

They are the two new disc based SingStar titles coming out towards the end of the year. SingStar Dance allows two people to dance along using the PlayStation Move motion controller in addition to two singers. With SingStar Guitar, you can use any guitar controller you have for other games and play along while your friends sing.

Dave Ranyard, SingStar's game director, stood still for a minute to talk about the latest additions to the hit series.





"The key thing for us is to give people new features while retaining that classic SingStar look and feel," he said. "For me, SingStar is all about family parties and these new features encourage more people to get involved."

To give your movements purpose when playing SingStar Dance, there is a dancing...

162w ago - I did this cheap PS2 to PS3 Guitar Hero 3 adapter a few months back, but only about a month after I bought my PS3.

So, I bought my ps3, with GH3+guitar. I made a custom PS2 guitar a while back so I thought it would be nice to use with the PS3. A cheapoo PS2-usb adapter worked with the controllers, but not with the guitar.

To not start from scratch, I found a PS2-USB adaper at http://vusb.wikidot.com/projects2usb but needed some "finetune" to work as a guitar.

First: mine only support one controller/adapter

Second: the HID descriptor had to be modified (copied what was possible - due to limitations of slow USB device class)

I've dumped the descriptor of my guitar so you can experiment with it, if you want. Download: USB HID_gh3_n2.rar

And at last: added a code to switch the controller to analog mode, so the whammy should work too. (you can connect before or after the adapter is powered, no special combo needed)

Source, binary and etc (avs include absolute path!) Download: Source.rar

Results: the adapter works great, fast, virtually no lag BUT i was unable to identify why the star-power...

190w ago - Guitar Hero fans can continue to build a diverse music library with great new music and classic tracks available for download in October.

New tracks playable in Guitar Hero 5 will be available for download every Thursday in October with music from Queens of the Stone Age, Billy Squier, Wolfmother, Peter Frampton and The Misfits.

Downloadable Content - October 1
Queens Of The Stone Age Track Pack

• "Mexicola"
• "Avon"
• "How to Handle a Rope"

Downloadable Content - October 8
Billy Squier Track Pack

• "The Stroke"
• "Everybody Wants You"
• "When She Comes To Me"

Downloadable Content - October 15
Wolfmother Track Pack

• "Pilgrim"
• "California Queen"
• "Cosmic Egg"

Downloadable Content - October 22
Classic Rock 2 Track Pack

• The J. Geils Band - "Freeze Frame"
• Peter Frampton - "Show Me The Way (Live)"
• Triumph - "Lay It On The Line"

Downloadable Content - October 29
All Hallows' Eve Track Pack

• GWAR - "Gor Gor"
• Marilyn Manson - "Beautiful People"
• The Misfits...

194w ago - Below is the Guitar Hero 5 Set list by Activision.

The game will retail for $59.99 US (Songs only - no instruments) and will be available for retail on September 1st of this year.

Guitar Hero 5 Song List:

• 3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"
• Arctic Monkeys - "Brianstorm"
• Blink-182 - "The Rock Show"
• Dire Straits - "Sultans Of Swing"
• Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
• Johnny Cash - "Ring Of Fire"
• Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets"
• Motley Crue - "Looks That Kill"
• Muse - "Plug In Baby"
• Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
• Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure"
• Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
• The Killers - "All The Pretty Faces"
• The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes"
• TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
• A Perfect Circle - "Judith"
• AFI - "Medicate"
• Attack! Attack! UK - "You And Me"
• Band Of Horses - "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands"
• Beastie Boys - "Gratitude"
• Beck - "Gamma Ray"
• Billy Idol - "Dancing With Myself"
• Billy Squier - "Lonely Is The Night"
• Blur - "Song 2"
• Bob Dylan - "All Along The Watchtower"
• Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name"
• Brand New - "Sowing Season...