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Rocksmith, Ubisoft's upcoming resuscitation of rhythm game Guitar Rising that allows players to plug in any guitar and jam away, has a special promotion going on through GameStop. Anyone who pre-orders the game (a product with a $79.99 MSRP) will get a voucher good for $25 off any guitar purchase at a Guitar Center location of their choosing or via Guitar Center's web site.

The voucher will be sent "within two business days" after the game ships or printed out in-store. It can't be combined with any "clearance, ukuleles, price matches, scratch & dent, vintage equipment, Gift Cards and musician services (Pro Coverage, GC Garage)" and the coupon is only valid through December 31, 2011.

Ubisoft's real music gameRocksmith will require a real guitar to play this fall. GameStop doesn't carry real guitars, so every Rocksmith preorder comes with a $25 voucher good towards the purchase of your dream axe at Guitar Center. Rock on. More »

SAN FRANCISCO - Today, Ubisoft announced a unique pre-order offer with GameStop, the world's largest retailer of video games, and Guitar Center, the world's largest musical instrument retailer, for its fall 2011 release of Rocksmith. Rocksmith is the first and only game that lets players plug any re...

If we were Ubisoft, we would have picked Austin's South by Southwest event as the location for the first demonstration of Rocksmith as well. During that week in March, it would have been impossible to find a person who wasn't totally thrilled about anything involving a guitar.

So keep in mind that many of the people interviewed in this trailer (after the break) were already in high spirits (and possibly high on spirits) when they tried Ubisoft's real-guitar-compatible music game. At least you'll be able to see the game for yourself -- the first gameplay footage is contained within, too.

Rocksmith looks to feature a traditional Rock Band/Guitar Hero interface, with the guitar's strings represented vertically on top of the note chart. It's harder to explain it than it is to tell you to just watch the video.

Raleigh, N.C. - Gamebase USA, a subsidiary of Gamebase Co., Ltd, announced today that Ubisoft is using the Gamebryo engine to develop Rocksmith, the first and only game where players can use any real guitar with a standard quarter-inch input jack and play through an in-depth library of music, rangin...

SO MUCH SIZZLE JUST LOOK AT THESE GUYS THEY ARE PRACTICALLY BACON FRYING IN A PAN

Ubisoft travels to SXSW in Austin, Texas.

So it turns out Ubisoft’s Rocksmith will be (1) coming to PC, (2) the first music game named after me personally and my remarkable reputation as a devil-may-care rock god, and (3) The first music game to work with real-life guitars. My feelings on this could be summarised succinctly, but I’ll spare you, just because I don’t think anybody wants to read the sentence “YES!” quite that many times. Details and first few trailers after the jump. Thanks to reader Lars “Teddible” Westergren for sending this in. (more…)

Rocksmith allows you to plug in a real guitar and learn to play a variety of popular songs.

Play might mean play, but it sure doesn't mean you'll see gameplay in this trailer.

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 strum through tunes by artists such as, David Bowie, Interpol, and The Rolling Stones using any real electric guitar they may have sitting around the house with a quarter-inch input jack.

As pointed out by internet sleuth supererogatory, the portfolio of illustrator Greg Korn reveals that the title is actually Guitar Rising, a piece of vaporware long in development at GameTank. Korn explains the project was "purchased by Ubisoft and currently in development for consoles." This certainly sounds like the very same thing.

The remaining mystery is how the guitar will track the notes plucked or strummed by players -- the Squier Stratocaster for Rock Band 3 can only do so using built-in semiconducters on each fret and a MIDI adapter. Is the game going to pick up on the actual note produced by the guitar? At the very latest, we'll find out when Rocksmith drops during the second half of 2011. For now, check out the screens and trailer below to get a feel for how cool you're going to look while playing.

Ubisoft is to release an all new rhythm action game dubbed Rocksmith, featuring a fully-functioning electric guitar and songs by big names such as David Bowie, Nirvana and The Rolling Stones. The announcement as broken by The Hollywood Reporter comes just over a month after Activision pulled t...