The Kartel: Music video games with actual instruments preview

Boston-based developer and publisher Seven 45 Studios has unveiled a real guitar as the controller for their upcoming PowerGig: Rise of the SixString video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and we recently had the opportunity to check out the game and peripheral in a closed doors meeting this week at GDC.

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GamingExcellence - Power Gig: Rise of the SixString Review

GamingExcellence - Functioning guitar brings nothing to the table; poorly-designed interface; half the songs are locked away until you play the campaign mode; dull campaign mode.

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PSXE's Worst Of 2010: The Dubious Distinctions

PSX Extreme: We believe in celebrating the year's quality rather than laughing at the stinkers. And yet, we also understand the failures and near-misses and "what if...?" titles are often quite popular topics of discussion and so, as a prelude to our GotY extravaganza, we give you a few PSXE Dubious Distinction Awards.

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Wired: The 10 Most Disappointing Games of 2010

2010 was the year we made contact with a lot of half-assed videogames. While there was much for gamers to celebrate over the past 12 months — and we here at Game|Life will be getting to that later — gamemakers also delivered an inordinate number of flops.

The following list isn't of the worst games of the year (such a list would be made up of Wii shovelware and movie games), but of the most disappointing titles, the ones that had great promise but fell way short.