Now anyone can be a star with the wildly popular "Guitar Hero" video game franchise that now has a new incredible feature: its new studio mode will allow players to use the instrument controllers to record music tracks. Through an online service called GHTunes, players also will be able to upload their songs, download others or collaborate to create music together.

With “Guitar Hero World Tour,” in addition to rocking out solo or with friends, this new upload is an eight-player Battle of the Bands that lets two full ensembles duel online. In the new music studio, you can record your own instrumental music, mix it and post it online. Moreover the World Tour is trying to compete with “Rock Band by adding a drum set with cymbals.

"Guitar Hero World Tour," the fourth major installment in the gaming series, hits stores Sunday, October 26.

According to a study made by market research firm Odyssey, which surveyed 1,500 people, said 58% of respondents played music games, compared to 50% that played sports games. Odyssey also said that about 40 percent of households now have a game console, the highest number since 2002.  Even bars replaced karaoke with Guitar Hero nights.

All in all, the offer goes as follows: with new Guitar Hero and Rock Band titles coming out this year, as well as Nintendo's digital toy Wii Music and Konami's Rock Revolution, we expect this new entertaining way of spending time to grow as we speak.
“Guitar Hero” brought producers $1.4 billion since arriving in November 2005. Last year, “Rock Band” added drums and karaoke-style singing to the mix and has sold more than $530 million. Each has a new version, “Rock Band 2” -$60- and “Guitar Hero World Tour” that costs about$60, which is out Sunday, with more songs and enhanced features.