Red Octane and Guitar Hero have been making headlines lately for a number of reasons. Their Xbox 360 port is due to hit soon. Parent company Activision registered trademarks for other Hero-style games. And development duties on the series have moved from Cambridge, Mass based Harmonix to Tony Hawk developer Neversoft.
Both Gamespot and GameDaily questioned Red Octane's head of publishing Dusty Welch to find out more about the future of the guitar god franchise. What'd he have to say? Not much! Keeping his Guitar Hero cards close to his chest, Welch offers a great deal of praise for Neversoft, but little info on the third game in the series, the rumored '80s Edition or what Drum Villian might entail. (Each Q&A appears to be e-mail based, as responses are nearly word-for-word to both outlets.)
What he does reveal is that we should expect more originally recorded tracks and that Xbox 360 owners should consider downloadable content from the first GH game "likely."
Q&A: RedOctane's Dusty Welch [Gamespot]
Exclusive: RedOctane Speaks Out on Guitar Hero's Future [GameDaily]
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