Activision has updated the official Guitar Hero: On Tour Web site with new content, including 16 custom skins for the DS plug-in grip.

Among the new designs are multi-colored variations of the Guitar Hero logo, a hard-rocking alien robot and a hellish motif with chains, bones and a fist rising above the flames.

Head over to the Guitar Hero: On Tour site to download a design, print it out and customize your cramp-inducing plastic grip.

Listen in as Kyle, Jake, and I discuss a new Zelda at E3, Guitar Hero bands, Feswork’s 2 Cents, and WiiWare’s appetite for wallets.  And stay tuned at the end of the show for This Week in Gaming History!

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With the new Aerosmith edition of Guitar Hero out now and a Metallica edition due early 2009, we want to know which band you think deserves the full game treatment.  Give us your pick in comments and include reasons why they deserve to get their own edition of the game.  We’ll be discussing our choices and yours on the next Infendo Radio.

The Guitar Hero series has always been about making you feel like a Rock god, a “Guitar Hero” if you will. The series has spanned many consoles and now finally manages to jump over to the portable market. I bet you guys are eagerly wondering if this game is any good, and are awaiting my blessing or my quashing of this title. So come join me inside for a trip down the path of becoming a portable rock god. (more…)

For everyone (including myself) who wondered how Rock Band for Wii would fare, it debuted at number 4 on Amazon’s weekly sales chart.  Here’s the top five:

5. Wii Play (Nintendo)
4. Rock Band Special Edition (EA Games)
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
2. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
1. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

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The portable version of Guitar Hero was released for DS today.  Did you get it?  What do you think?  And look forward to Infendo’s review coming soon!

It’s Rock Band versus Guitar Hero this week, although for two different Nintendo systems.  Click on in to see the new releases for this week.

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I love Guitar Hero, and I plan on buying World Tour later this year, but I’m having a hard time understanding this marketing ploy by Activision. It’s a weird mish mash of vandalism, cheapness, bad taste and quick thinking (you know Rock Band’s guys had the same idea cooking in their heads too). Seriously, that’s the same posterboard stuff I can buy at my local CVS. Then again, it was quick thinking, and a lot of people like GH. Like I said, I’m torn… (hence the humor tag)

Are the upcoming RockBand, Rock Revolution, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: On Tour, or Guitar Hero World Tour titles not looking to satisfy your metal head rhythm needs? Look no further as Activision has enlisted a new spin off to the franchise which takes Metallica along for the ride.

“In fiscal 2009, we plan to publish Guitar Hero: On Tour for the NDS; Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: Metallica, and Guitar Hero IV across multiple platforms,”

Fiscal 2009 makes full circle at the end of March so expect this one to most likely hit shelves Q1 2009. This announcement comes less than a year after Metallica sued both Harmonix, and Red Octane over music infringement. Is this how they met terms? Hmm…

Either way here comes one more money wagon down the pipeline…

Thanks, HyperSonic!

Don’t know if you’ve seen the cheese-ridden tragedy that is the Guitar Hero On Tour commercial or not, so here’s fair warning that it’s somewhere in this post, ready to pounce on your innocent eyes with all manner of campy sadness, without remorse.

Now, that said, this pic is a Toys R Us Nintendo DS bundle for $180. Includes Guitar Hero On Tour and a special edition silver Guitar Hero branded DS. Only has four buttons, sure, but it’s Guitar Hero on the road, if that’s your thing. I’m a studio man, myself.

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DDR, Guitar Hero, SingStar, Rock Band, Samba de Amigo, and many more iterations of rhythm games have appeared and will soon be releasing more titles.  This week, we want to know:

Share your thoughts about rhythm games in comments.  See last week’s poll results here.

Well, these are the drums for the Xbox 360 version of the recently revealed Guitar Hero IV. I imagine that the Wii version will be very similar, but probably white. Either way, I’m totally psyched that there will be cymbals! My Rock Band pre-order = cancelled!

What do you all think?

[Thanks, stafo! Source: Joystiq]

The latest issue of GameInformer (June 2008) contains the first details on this fall’s, Guitar Hero IV for PS3, 360, Wii, PS2. Neversoft mentioned that they would continue the Guitar Hero franchise regardless of rival game, Rock Band, but would incorporate new features into instruments. Early details below…

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