There’s been a lot of speculation on the blog and the guitar rising forum about the game being ‘vaporware’.

In case you’ve never heard of ‘vaporware’ there’s a wiki on it here. It’s basically software that gets hyped up but never released, either intended as a joke or there’s a problem in the development.

Well as far as ‘vaporware’ is concerned we’ve never suspected it. But the fact that there’s been no official news updates since the dawn of the official guitar rising website, and hardly any promotion, no release dates or much of anything else strikes alarm bells.

But on the positive side, the company behind guitar rising have won an indepedent game developers award. Although there website looks a little spare, aswell as there official Guitar Rising one.

Then there’s been a promising interview that goes into a little depth about the game. We blogged about it here.

Also they’ve featured at conferences such as GDC 2008 and there’s video’s of the game being demo’d. We blogged about that and included the video here.

And to top all those positive (ish) points off, popular blogs such as gizmodo have blogged about it.

Our guess is that they’re a little behind in development, and the anticipated guitar rising release date won’t be any time soon. Prove us wrong!

Your thoughts?