Gadgets

The Best Reviews Of The Year

2010 was a great year for gadgets. It’s always a great year for gadgets! Let’s re-live it a little, shall we? Check out some of the best, worst, and oddest of the year.


November 23, 2010
Gaming

Gifts For Gamers Of All Ages—and Degrees Of Cleanliness


November 3, 2010
Gaming

Rock Band 3′s Real Guitar Finally Priced And Dated

Fender’s real electric guitar that doubles as a Rock Band 3 controller is coming next year, according to the guitar maker. You’ll get your hands on the Squier Stratocaster controller in March 2011… if you can pony up the cash.


October 22, 2010
Gaming

Rock Band 3 Instruments Review

As we said before, Rock Band 3 is ambitious because it’s not just a game where you push buttons to music, it’s a game that gives you real(ish) instruments and makes you develop actual, usable musical skills.


October 20, 2010
Gaming

This Is How You’re Going To Learn The Guitar

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Rock Band 3 is going to make tens, if not hundreds of thousands of gamers into actual guitarists. How? It cleverly shoehorns guitar lessons into a game that kids and adults both love. And this is how it looks.


June 17, 2010
Gaming

How Harmonix Is Tricking Lazy Gamers Into Learning Real Instruments

For years, musicians have mocked those of us holding plastic guitars. Fair enough—but we had fun! But with Rock Band 3, we learn what Harmonix was up to all along: Actually teaching us how to play real instruments.


Gaming

Hands On With Rock Band 3′s Pro Guitar And Keyboard (Keytar!)

Mad Catz is the official hardware partner for Rock Band 3, and their two new realistic instruments—pro guitar with 102 buttons, and the keyboard peripheral—are the closest you get to real instruments yet.


June 11, 2010
Gaming

Rock Band 3 Will Try To Teach You How To Actually Play Instruments

Rock Band 3 is going to come with a real-deal MIDI keyboard. Yes, this new music game will attempt to teach you to actually play music.


May 27, 2010
Gaming

Rock Band 3‘s Keyboard Is Actually A Keytar?

The keyboard accessory we were looking forward to in Rock Band 3 is supposedly actually a KEYTAR. Good, I suppose, for mobility and rockitude, but not for learning how to actually play the keybo… oh god, I’ve become an old man. [Ars Technica]


May 26, 2010
Gaming

Rock Band 3 Brings Pianos Into The Equation

Attention, toy instrument connoisseurs! Make room in your pretend studio for a new addition: the piano. Yes, Rock Band 3 is bringing the ivories to the video game world.