Meet the World's No. 1 Guitar Hero

Move over, Eddie Van Halen -- there's a new generation of guitar hero on the block.

Armed with a small plastic axe, Seattle's Freddie Wong is taking the gaming world -- and the Internet -- by storm as one of the best players of Guitar Hero.

It's a wildly popular series of video games that lets users play along with their favourite songs and pretend they're guitar gods -- but Wong is quickly becoming one in his own right. He won the Guitar Hero 2 championship at the World Series of Video Games in Dallas last summer, appeared on MTV, and now earns money showing off his skills across North America.

"[Guitar Hero] has gotten a lot of attention because it's one of the few games you can play and if a girl walks in the room, she doesn't actually turn around and leave," he laughs.

The 22-year-old student owes part of his fame to another wildly popular phenomenon -- YouTube, a video-sharing site.

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Source: Sandra Sperounes, Canwest News Service

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