Guitar Hero
Following a five-year hiatus, as described below, Activision announced "Guitar Hero Live" for release in late 2015 on most seventh-generation and eighth-generation consoles. "Live" was developed to rebuild the game from the ground up, and while the gameplay remains similar to the earlier titles, focusing primarily on the lead guitar, it uses a 3-button guitar controller with each button having "up" and "down" positions, making for more complex tabulators. The game using live footage of a rock concert, taken from the perspective of the lead guitarist, as to provide a more immersive experience.
Guitar Hero Mobile series
Guitar Hero Mobile is a series of rhythm video games in the "Guitar Hero" series, adapting the normal console-based gameplay which uses a guitar-shaped controller to match notes of popular rock music songs to work with the face buttons on advanced mobile phones, including BlackBerry devices and those supporting the Windows Mobile platform. The first three games in the series—"Guitar Hero III Mobile", "Guitar Hero Backstage Pass", and "Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile"—were developed by MachineWorks Northwest LLC and published by Hands-On Mobile, while a mobile version of "Guitar Hero 5" was developed by Glu Mobile. The series has proven to be popular; the "Guitar Hero III Mobile" game has been downloaded more than 2 million times, and over 250,000 songs are played each day across the series.