Rocksmith Lets You Use Your Own Electric Guitar to Play New Rhythm Game

Standard Edition and Epiphone Les Paul Jr. Guitar Bundle Now Available in North America.

SAN FRANCISCO – October 18, 2011 – Today, Ubisoft® announces that Rocksmith™ is now available at retail throughout North America. The standard edition of the game, available for $79.99, will include the Rocksmith Real Tone Cable™, a unique 1/4” to USB cable that is the first of its kind, developed exclusively for Rocksmith. This revolutionary cable turns the guitar’s signal from analog to digital, allowing it to be recognized and played through video game consoles for the first time. The guitar bundle will provide a quality entry-level option for people that have always wanted to play but don’t own a guitar. The bundle, available for $199.99, includes an Epiphone Les Paul Jr guitar, along with the Rocksmith Real Tone Cable. Rocksmith is rated “T” for Teen.

Rocksmith is the first and only video game where players can plug any real guitar with a standard 1/4” input jack into an Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft or PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, and play through an in-depth library of music including everything from the latest hits to classic rock songs. Rocksmith features gameplay that automatically adjusts to the player’s skill level, and will engage experienced musicians as well as those who are picking up a guitar for the first time.  Players will be able to choose from actual lead, rhythm, and combo guitar compositions, inspiring players to perform songs after the game is turned off.

The final track lists of songs included in Rocksmith are:
•       Best Coast – When I’m With You
•       Blur – Song 2
•       Cream – Sunshine of Your Love
•       Dan Auerbach – I Want Some More
•       David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
•       Eric Clapton – Run Back To Your Side
•       Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
•       Incubus – I Miss You
•       Interpol – Slow Hands
•       Jarvis Cocker – Angela
•       Jenny O. – Well OK Honey
•       Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody
•       Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
•       Little Barrie – Surf Hell
•       Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
•       Muse – Unnatural Selection
•       Muse – Plug In Baby
•       Nirvana – Breed
•       Nirvana – In Bloom
•       Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
•       Queens Of The Stone Age – Go With The Flow
•       Radiohead – High And Dry
•       Rapscallions – California Brain
•       Red Fang – Number Thirteen
•       Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook
•       Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
•       Soundgarden – Outshined
•       Spoon – Me And The Bean
•       Stone Temple Pilots – Vasoline
•       Stone Temple Pilots – Between The Lines
•       Taddy Porter – Mean Bitch
•       The Animals – House Of The Rising Sun
•       The Black Keys – Next Girl
•       The Black Keys – I Got Mine
•       The Boxer Rebellion – Step Out Of The Car
•       The Cribs – We Share The Same Skies
•       The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
•       The Dead Weather – I Can’t Hear You
•       The Horrors – Do You Remember
•       The Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
•       The Rolling Stones – Play With Fire
•       The Rolling Stones – The Spider and The Fly
•       The Strokes – Under Cover Of Darkness
•       The White Stripes – Icky Thump
•       The XX – Islands
•       Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union
•       Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Good Enough
•       Velvet Revolver – Slither
•       White Denim – Burnished
•       Yellow Moon Band – Chimney

For more information on Rocksmith, please visit www.rocksmith.com, and follow Rocksmith on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rocksmithgame.

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