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Guitar Hero On Tour Series
''Guitar Hero: On Tour'' is a series of music video games based on the Guitar Hero, ''Guitar Hero'' series for the Nintendo DS handheld game system. The series is developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Activision. Three games in the series have been released since June 2008: ''Guitar Hero: On Tour'', ''Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades'', and ''Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits''. As with other games in the ''Guitar Hero'' series, the player is challenged to play through the lead guitar, lead or bass guitar portions of rock songs by matching colored notes that scroll on screen towards the player in time with physical actions to score points and keep the virtual crowd pleased. While the console versions of ''Guitar Hero'' use a separate guitar controller, guitar-shaped peripheral, Vicarious Visions developed a "Guitar Grip" unit that slips into the Game Boy Advance port on the DS or the Nintendo DS Lite, DS Lite to be used with the games; it is thus incompatible with the Nintend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicarious Visions
Blizzard Albany (formerly Vicarious Visions, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Albany, New York. The studio was acquired by Activision in January 2005. After releasing its last game as part of that company, ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2'', Vicarious Visions became part of Activision's sister company Blizzard Entertainment in January 2021 and was merged into it in April 2022, thereby being renamed Blizzard Albany. History The studio was founded by brothers Karthik and Guha Bala in 1991 while they were in high school. In the late 1990s, Vicarious Visions appointed Michael Marvin, an Albany-based investor and entrepreneur, and founder and former CEO of MapInfo Corporation; and Charles S. Jones, investor, who sat on the boards of various software and industrial companies including Geac and PSDI, to its board of directors. Under their leadership, a sale of the company was negotiated to Activision, earning the original investors over 20x their initial investment. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
