Google has created a very special playable guitar doodle to celebrate music legend Les Paul's 96th birthday.

The doodle can be played either by picking or strumming the strings with your cursor, or by clicking the keyboard icon and using the...

If you're a fan of guitar gaming, but you want to turn it up to 11, then the You Rock Guitar could be just the thing. It's a digital guitar, complete with 22 fret full scale neck, optimised fret spacing and six steel strings.

The You Rock Guitar...

Gosh - this comes a little out of left field. British guitar amp manufacturers Orange Amplifiers have decided to cram either a PC into an amplifier, or an amplifier into a PC. We can't entirely work out which way around it is, but it's called the OPC...

Time Magazine has named Grand Theft Auto IV as the best game of 2008.

In it's list of the top ten games of the year, the magazine described GTA IV as "a grade-A shoot-'em-up that doubles as an interactive novel and triples as a sly critique...

THQ has pulled out the big guns and signed up two famous actors for its new Wii game.

Equally potty Dennis Hopper and Billy Bob Thornton are both set to provide voices for Deadly Creatures - an action adventure game with a twist that is due...

Microsoft has confirmed release dates for its highly-anticipated strategy game Halo Wars, and the prediction of a February release date wasn't far wrong.

Halo Wars will be released in Japan and Asia first, on 26 February. Europe will follow...

Two industry analysts have predicted that casual-centric gaming firms could suffer under the pressure of the credit crunch, and have picked out Nintendo in particular as a company that could suffer more than most.

They figure that while hardcore...

Nintendo has reported strong sales over the Thanksgiving weekend in the States, with company boss Satoru Iwata stating around 800,000 Wii consoles were sold across the country.

If this is true, that more than doubles the 350,000 sold over...

A survey has shown that millions of British youngster have been inspired to learn to play an instrument after playing music console games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

The survey, carried out by the UK's largest music charity Youth Music,...