Whereas the launch trailer for the first Guitar Hero DS resembled High School Musical with its spontaneous dancing, this trailer for the sequel--Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, due this Sunday--suggests the game could aid in finding your significant other.

Strong sales of Vicarious Vision's DS Guitar Hero entry, a game the studio freely admits was never planned or requested, have set new sales records for publisher Activision.

In the week following its June 22 release, Guitar Hero: On Tour sold over 300,000 units in North America. That feat, Activision claims, makes it the company's largest Nintendo DS software launch in North America "by more than a factor of eight." Read more »

From publisher Activision comes this latest trailer for Vicarious Visions' peripheral-equipped Guitar Hero: On Tour, showing how you too can convert total strangers into lifelong friends by rocking out on your Nintendo DS in a park.

Bundled with the Guitar Grip peripheral at a $49.99 price point, Guitar Hero: On Tour hits store shelves this Sunday.

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A hardware bundle containing a Nintendo DS and Guitar Hero: On Tour will be available at North American retailers when the game debuts on June 22, Nintendo has revealed.

At present, the bundle marks the only offering of the silver-black DS Lite in North America. No price was given, though the DS hardware is regularly priced at $129.99, with the Activision-published, Vicarious Visions-produced game selling at $49.99. Read more »

No one asked Vicarious Visions to make Guitar Hero for the Nintendo DS. No one at studio owner Activision, fellow Activision subsidiary RedOctane, or Nintendo believed it was even possible.

"People thought it was ludicrous," Vicarious CEO Karthik Bala told me at a Guitar Hero event earlier this week. "It was never in the plan to do that."

As Bala puts it, the whole thing came out of the Vicarious staff playing around to "see if it was even possible to do a really good music rhythm game on a handheld." Twenty-three prototypes and a few cardboard guitars later, a breakthrough came in the form of a "crazy Frankenstein GBA cartridge" wired with fret buttons. Read more »

Wondering how you'll be rocking out with the Nintendo DS version of Guitar Hero? This crazy video explains all. Guitar Hero: On Tour is expected late June.

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Publisher Activision has issued five new screenshots of Guitar Hero: On Tour, further illustrating what Guitar Hero looks like when it's running on a Nintendo DS.

Among the shots are glimpses of the game's local wireless multiplayer and its use of the DS' microphone to blow out on-stage fires. Read more »

Following up on yesterday's announcement, publisher Activision has issued two teeny-tiny screenshots of the first Guitar Hero entry on the Nintendo DS, along with a piece of character art and clearer images of the guitar grip controller.

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Activision has revealed the long-rumored DS rendition of its Guitar Hero franchise and its accompanying peripheral, IGN reports.

Entitled Guitar Hero: On Tour, the game utilizes a peripheral called the Guitar Grip to recreate the Guitar Hero experience. The peripheral plugs into the Nintendo DS's Game Boy Advance slot on the bottom of the system and features four buttons versus the traditional guitar controller's five. Read more »