Rockstar Leeds, the team that delivered the hugely successful Liberty City Stories for the handheld, are hard at work on a brand new outing in the 'Stories' line, this time taking Vice City as inspiration. Vice City Stories will, as before, be exclusive to the PSP, and the publisher have even announced an October 20th PAL region dating.

More over, are promising that unlike the experimental Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories will be an entirely brand-new title, featuring new gameplay elements, a new storyline, new missions and more besides. A new and diverse soundtrack will help bring the authentic Miami Vice ambience to life, whilst real voice acting talent will no doubt add weight to the game's plot.

A new PSP outing has been on the cards ever since Liberty City Stories sold by the bucketload, despite conjecture as to whether the format would work as well on Sony's wee handheld. Indeed, if Vice City proves to be a genuinely different game from the classic, then this could be what needs to reach the next-level on the handheld. We imagine must be rather pleased, too. More soon.

By Luke Guttridge