How many times have you heard a Guitar Hero-hater declare “It’s just not the same you know? For real musicians, it’s just so fake.” And now that Guitar Hero has had its fun and exited the market, a new contender is here to fill its shoes – and to do so more realistically.
The new Ubisoft title Rocksmith will be released for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC later this year and is supposed to “revolutionize” the music game industry. Rocksmith will trade in the plastic button-push models of Guitar Hero for actual electric guitars. Any guitar with a standard quarter-inch jack will become the controller.
With older music game titles, there are prescribed settings for your skill level, but Rocksmith will adjust to an individual’s level of play, giving you a customized jam session. Ubisoft also says titles from Interpol, The Black Keys, and Nirvana will be among those in its “sizable library.”
We only have a teaser trailer to glean details from thus far, but we’re hearing that the UI will be a much more familiar experience for actual musicians. Rock Band and Guitar Hero (as any instrumentalists will repeatedly let you know) music highways. These visual representations of notes are nothing like actual written sheet music. If Rocksmith can find a way to combine the visually interesting and low learning curve of games like Guitar Hero into the process of interpreting written music, Ubisoft could have a hit on its hands for young instrumentalists and musically gifted gamers alike.

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Game over Guitar Hero: Rocksmith is the real guitar video game

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Ending a dispute that caused 27 local television stations in 17 cities to go dark for eight days, Dish Network and television station owner Lin TV Corp. agreed to contract terms Sunday.

Terms of the agreement were not released, and neither side has said how many viewers were affected.

The two sides failed to agree before a March 5 deadline. Since then, Dish Network subscribers in 17 cities including Indianapolis, Providence, R.I., and Buffalo, N.Y., were no longer able to watch local affiliates of networks such as CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC and the CW.

Both companies had blamed each other for pulling the broadcast signals.

Disputes over the fees cable and satellite providers pay to broadcast stations to include their signals in their channel lineups are becoming increasingly common.

In October, a breakdown in negotiations between Cablevision Systems Corp. and News Corp.'s Fox network left 3 million Cablevision subscribers in the New York area without Fox programming for 15 days — including through two World Series games — after the broadcaster pulled its signal.

In January, Time Warner Cable and Sinclair Broadcast group came to terms on an agreement just hours before a midnight deadline that would have cut local service to 4 million subscribers in places like Buffalo, San Antonio and Greensboro, N.C.

Lin is based in Providence. Dish Network Corp. is headquartered in Englewood,Colo

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Dish Network and Lin Media agree, restore channels

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