Many companies find it difficult to reduce the cost of metal surgical instruments. The production, cleaning, and sterilization of metal components can be expensive, and there is little that can be ...

It’s been a long time since we had a new Rock Band or Guitar Hero game. If you’re like me, then your old plastic instruments from those games are collecting dust in a corner, sitting unused year after ...

A single-use, plastic instrument for spinal surgery has proved its mettle in a comparative strength study performed by the Orthopaedic Trauma Institute at the University of California San Francisco ...

Harmonix is perhaps best known for pioneering the plastic instrument revolution of rhythm games, plucking along on a plastic guitar to popular songs while making the player feel like an absolute ...

Viacom will sell Harmonix, the creator of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band music videogames, signaling what one analyst called the death of the "plastic instrument business." The company announced its ...

If you're big on the new Wii Music game, then you no doubt use your Wiimote relentlessly in an effort to play that great symphony. But now you can feel more like a real musician with the ezGear ...

Chad joined the DualShockers staff in mid 2009 and since then has put much of his time into covering RPGs, with a focus on the Japanese side of the genre, from the obscure to the mainstream. He's a ...

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the ...