Guitar Hero
In April 2015, Activision announced a new entry in the series, titled "Guitar Hero Live". The title was developed by Activision's internal studio FreeStyleGames, who previously had worked on the "DJ Hero" spinoff titles. FreeStyleGames were given free rein to reboot the "Guitar Hero" series for next-generation consoles. One of their first innovations was to drop the standard five-button guitar controller, ultimately designing a six-button guitar controller, with two rows of three buttons each, allowing them to mimic actual guitar fingering. "Guitar Hero Live" was released with both a career and an online mode. The career mode used full-motion video taken from the perspective of a lead guitarist underneath the note highway, to create an immersive experience to the player. The online mode, called "GHTV", discarded the previous downloadable content approach and used a music video channel approach to stream playable songs to players, adding new songs to the catalog on a weekly basis. The game was released in October 2015.
Guitar Hero
Many of the "Guitar Hero" games developed for the recent generation of consoles (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii) support downloadable content, allowing players to purchase new songs to play in the respective titles. Songs each cost approximately $2 through the various online stores for the console's platform. Prior to "Guitar Hero 5", downloadable content for earlier games will not work in other games in the series, save for songs from Metallica's "Death Magnetic", which were available for "Guitar Hero III", "World Tour", and "Metallica". Existing "World Tour" downloadable content for "World Tour" will be forward-compatible with "Guitar Hero 5", "Band Hero" and "Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock", and for a small fee, some songs from both "Guitar Hero World Tour" and "Guitar Hero Smash Hits" can be exported to both "Guitar Hero 5" and "Band Hero", limited by music licensing. Activision has also stated that they are considering a monthly subscription service to deliver downloadable content to user for future games. "Guitar Hero World Tour" introduced a music creation mode that will allow players to create and share songs (excluding vocals) via the "GHTunes" service, which was also used in all other "Guitar Hero" games and "Band Hero" since its inclusion. The creation tools were improved with "Guitar Hero 5" and "Band Hero" to allow longer songs and other means of generating songs in real-time.