Die-hard Guitar Hero fans can expect “Guitar Hero Arcade” in early 2009. Activision teamed up with arcade developer Raw Thrills and Konami according to MTV News, to create the new game.

“It’s kind of one of the weirder things in the world, right?”Andrew Eloff, Raw Thrills VP, said to MTV News. “It’s Konami and Activision and Raw Thrills all working together. Konami has all this experience with doing coin-op games and Activision has the number one domestic music game. So, I think it’s kind of a match made in heaven. It makes a lot a lot of sense.”

“Guitar Hero Arcade” is based on “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock,” and owners of the machine will be able to get new songs through the internet.

“We have more pre-orders on this game than ever, than we’ve ever seen — ever,” Eloff told MTV News. “It’s amazing. It’s doing very, very, very well.”

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