An interesting tidbit of news was revealed by The Official PlayStation Blogcast , and it has to do with one of the most commercially successful PlayStation Portable games ever released: Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

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There are plenty of PSP games incompatible with the PlayStation Vita, and Liberty City Stories is one of them. But no more! When the PlayStation Store updates on Tuesday, July 17th, Liberty City Stories will be compatible with your Vita. While this isn’t an updated version of the game per se, and doesn’t include things like Trophies, you will be able to download the game off of the PS Store directly to your Vita if you’re looking for something to play during what seems to be a perpetual lull in new Vita releases.Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories originally came to PlayStation Portable in October of 2005, and we loved it . It was ported to PlayStation 2 the following summer , and has since gone on, via both platforms, to sell incredible numbers. It was last reported, in March of 2008, to have sold 8 million copies across both platforms, so you can surmise that it’s sold even more than that in the last four-plus years.

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