Guitar Hero finally returning with new game after 10 years

We’re getting a new Guitar Hero! Incredible news, right? Well unfortunately no, for like twenty different reasons.

Thank you in advance to Insider Gaming's Grant Taylor-Hill for the source on this one!

As revealed by Activision’s official Instagram account on Saturday, we’re getting a new Guitar Hero game - but you may wish we weren’t.

Firstly, it’s a mobile game. Now I’ve got no issue with mobile games, provided they don’t feature inherently predatory microtransactions, but a mobile Guitar Hero game? Really?

Are you gonna be able to plug a guitar into your mobile to use this one? And if you can, are you actually going to?

And if you can’t plug a peripheral in then… what exactly is going to set this apart from every other mobile rhythm action game? The soundtrack? The soundtrack you know they’re going to charge you like 5 dollars per song for?

Now here comes the next big issue: the ad they’re using to promote the game on Instagram is very, very clearly AI-generated.

You can spot it from a mile off. Look at how weirdly warped the speakers are and how goofy the people in the crowd appear. Even the bloody prompts look distorted.

However, if you need more convincing, it seems someone in the comment section spotted the exact AI that Activision used to generate this jumbled mess.

“Wow. It appears they're still using midjourney 1.0,” commented user thejake_85, “I haven't seen AI art this bad since the early days.”

Did you know that Activision Blizzard’s total market value is roughly £59 billion? And they couldn’t just, I don’t know, pay one person to do this for them instead of getting some poor intern to type “guitar hero mobile” into an AI?

I mean my expectations were low but good lord, Activision. Is the couple of hundred you saved on paying an artist really worth looking like a cheapskate?