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Digital
Rocksmith Europe launch delayed by rights issues
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 14 October 2011
Games firm Ubisoft confirmed this week that its new ‘Rocksmith’ game, which is a bit like pretend-to-play franchises ‘Guitar Hero’ and ‘Rock Band’, except that you plug in an actual guitar and play for real, won’t launch in Europe until 2012 because of problems with licensing the music that appears in the game.
The games firm wrote on the product’s Facebook page: “Rocksmith will not be available in Europe until 2012. This is due to music licensing and other external factors. For those of you in Europe who plan to import the game, we want to advise you to do so at your own risk”. The Xbox version of the game is region locked anyway, and extra downloadable tracks won’t be available in Europe, so those importing the game would need some know-how to circumvent those restrictions.
It’s not clear if the other “external factors” includes the fact an unsigned British band called Rocksmith is trying to stop the gaming firm from registering the name in Europe, they having performed under that moniker for four years.
