Via bemanistyle and MTV’s game blog comes news of a Guitar Hero Arcade Game.

1. The game is basically a modified version of Guitar Hero III running on PC hardware at its current state. No word on whether anything major will be added or changed before its release as of yet.
2. The Konami/Activision partnership may have more to do with the potential earnings of the game rather than Konami giving up on the US market or both companies wanting to play nice. Not too surprising, but at least that doesn’t necessarily mean the end of GFdm.
3. The controllers for the arcade version are modeled after the Guitar Hero World Tour guitars, but built more like the Guitar Freaks AC guitars. There go any durability concerns anyone should be having.
4. Online functionality is definitely planned, and will be handled through the same servers as Raw Thrills’ hit Big Buck Hunter titles.
5. Song updates through the online connection are a possibility.

It scares me a little that the guitar looks like a stock Guitar Hero World Tour guitar. There’s no way that thing would survive an arcade environment! Needs way more metal and reinforcement to be arcade tough.

Anyhow, I guess this brings us full circle, as the Japanese arcade game Guitar Freaks was the inspiration for the original 2005 Guitar Hero on the Playstation 2.