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Rock Band allows you to experience the thrill of playing in a band without having to go through all that tiresome learning. It's a game everyone should experience. But we've always wondered if it's accessible enough. What if someone wasn't around to show the uneducated how to turn the system on? Is setting up a multiplayer game as easy as we think? Could three noobs finish a song without shouting at each other? We were keen to find out ...

We the proud musicians who don’t actually play a real instrument, yet still demand the ability to rock the hell out are in for a real treat thanks to our buddies at Mad Catz. Rock Band’s guitar buttons too click-clackity? Guitar Hero’s strum bar too squeaky? Screw ‘em. Mad Catz has the solution to your fake guitar woes and we’re giving you a chance to win a Fender Precision Bass Guitar and three sister ...

Last year we compared upstart Rock Band against Guitar Hero III to see which shredded harder, and more importantly, which one shredded properly. Difficulty is one thing, proper note allocation is another, no? ...

If you’re reading these words, then we salute you for being adventurous enough to watch games journalists make fools of themselves on camera. Yes, GamesRadar has made another (awesome) custom video; this time taking advantage of Rock Band 2’s killer wireless instruments. Laugh as we disrupt PlayStation: The Official Magazine, cry as we barge in on the Official Xbox Magazine and uh, laugh again while we keep the good folks at PC Gamer from doing their jobs. ...

We here at GamesRadar do very little peripheral coverage – mostly because most of it’s crap. However, when Mad Catz rolled in yesterday with a metric ton of legitimately awesome Rock Band 2 gear, including the long-awaited cymbals, we decided to make an exception. Did you think you were done spending money on Rock Band stuff? That was silly of you. Watch these videos and see how wrong you were. ...

Short of surgically grafting a plastic guitar, bass and drums onto our limbs there’s no way we thought Rock Band on PSP would ever work. How wrong we were. Wisely mimicking their previous games Frequency and Amplitude, developers Harmonix have mapped different notes onto the handheld’s face buttons, with the shoulder buttons switching instruments. We’ve been playing the game a fair bit recently and can honestly say ...