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Is Rockstar working on a new handheld GTA game?

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I can clearly remember the first time that I ever played a proper GTA game on the PSP console. It was the original PS2 game (minus a concession here or there), playable right there in my hands and on the go. This was the future of gaming, I was certain. We’ve had a couple more of those games ported over in the years since then. And there might be another on the way.

Take-Two has filed a new trademark, under the title of “City Stories” according to GameSpot. As you know, Take-Two happens to be the big daddy in charge of publishing Grand Theft Auto. The listing that was registered covers both “computer and video game programs and software” and “entertainment services, namely, providing online games.”

Stories has also bee the title applied to various GTA handheld games, such as Liberty GTA:City Stories and GTA:Vice City Stories. Alternatively however, this could also be the name of some upcoming GTA V DLC.

Or, there’s an even more mundane alternative, much like every answer to an unsolved mystery in life: Take-Two could just be securing name rights for future projects for their billion dollar frachise and there could be nothing on the way in the immediate future. Frightening thoughts indeed.

Still, we do know that at least one new Rockstar game is coming out next year. And while I doubt that we’ll see a bundled version of GTA IV and all its DLC on the PS Vita announced, it’s nice to know that something is on the way. Maybe. Probably. Hopefully.

Last Updated: May 22, 2014

58 Comments

  1. Please no
    EDIT: I know not many people agree with me on this, but I just feel like some games (not all) lose so much once they’re ported for the smaller devices.
    Call me old fashioned, but when I’m out and not at home I like to read when I’m bored. My gaming is behind my pc, at home.

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    • Admiral Chief in Space

      May 22, 2014 at 10:44

      (with barely contained laughter)

      IS THAT WHAT SHE SAID???

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      • Jedi JJ

        May 22, 2014 at 10:44

        Only because she was already tired out. Boom!

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        • Hammersteyn

          May 22, 2014 at 10:45

          I thought it was because your aim was off?

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          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 22, 2014 at 10:45

            BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

          • Jedi JJ

            May 22, 2014 at 10:46

            I’m a pc gamer, our aim is never off.

          • Hammersteyn

            May 22, 2014 at 10:49

            Hey I’m not judging, you should see some of these guys aim on PS2. Can’t hit anything. Just because you have the tools doesn’t mean you know how to use them.

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 22, 2014 at 10:50

            You said it

          • Jedi JJ

            May 22, 2014 at 10:51

            But relying on auto aim in real life is where sh!t goes awry.

          • Hammersteyn

            May 22, 2014 at 10:52

            Hahahaha

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 22, 2014 at 10:50

            Huehuehue

          • RinceofFuturePast

            May 22, 2014 at 10:55

            Oh, wow, slips in PC gamer at any opportunity… That’s what she said 😛

          • Jedi JJ

            May 22, 2014 at 11:04

            Haha

    • Umar_Zero

      May 22, 2014 at 10:51

      have you played GTA on psp or DS…….They were brilliant…..

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      • Jedi JJ

        May 22, 2014 at 13:30

        Not a fan of little gaming devices, as I said above. I don’t see the point. But that’s just me.

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    • RinceofFuturePast

      May 22, 2014 at 10:54

      But, what about the Vita! What about Borderlands 2?! Proof it can be done… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      May 22, 2014 at 10:55

      I agree with you. I have quite a few games on my phone, but they’re 5 minute diversions. Thinking about playing a full 10+ hour game that way just feels wrong.

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      • Umar_Zero

        May 22, 2014 at 10:57

        Has anyone here played Chinatown Wars??…..It was way better than 4 imo….It was on PSP, I can’t agree with this. Handhelds are more than 5 minute diversions

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          May 22, 2014 at 11:05

          I don’t care how entertaining the pamphlet is, I’d rather read a book.

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          • Umar_Zero

            May 22, 2014 at 11:05

            That….makes zero sense

    • Kromas

      May 22, 2014 at 11:06

      I call you ancient. Old Fashioned is when you exclusively game on a gameboy with Pokemon.

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      • Jedi JJ

        May 22, 2014 at 11:16

        You’re ancient! (as you can tell, I’m a master at comebacks)

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        • Kromas

          May 22, 2014 at 11:19

          Well I do remember pen and paper so I must be ancient. 😛

          Back in my day sonny we had to install Duke off of 35 stiffies. 🙂

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          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 22, 2014 at 11:26

            *sighs and fondly remembers those days*

          • Kromas

            May 22, 2014 at 11:28

            No day 1 patch no DLC and if something breaks the patch is usually 12kb in size. 🙂

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 22, 2014 at 11:31

            DLC was called expansion packs, and worth the money

          • Kromas

            May 22, 2014 at 11:34

            Also Star Wars was not a pretentious prequel. Twilight did not exist. Starcraft had a rival in C&C and CoD did not exist. Damn I miss the old days.

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 22, 2014 at 11:35

            And fuel was cheap and the streets were safe and beer was cheap….
            *sigh*

          • Jedi JJ

            May 22, 2014 at 11:26

            Ah. I’m not THAT young.
            I remember having to install X-Wing off a bunch of stiffies as well. Good times.

    • Kris El Izvanzemen

      January 2, 2015 at 14:48

      PSVita deserves a gta 5 game on it so it will not loose that much since the vita is 70% of the ps3 power

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  2. Hammersteyn

    May 22, 2014 at 10:45

    Must be a mistake, I’m pretty sure that they were way too busy porting GTAV for the “masterbaters” was it Rince?

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    • RinceofFuturePast

      May 22, 2014 at 10:57

      Indeed 😉

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  3. Umar_Zero

    May 22, 2014 at 10:51

    maybe another China Wars type game!!

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  4. RinceofFuturePast

    May 22, 2014 at 10:58

    I thought the only point of a handheld was so that you could hide in the girls changing rooms and play games where fondling Japanese schoolgirls was less likely to land you in prison than the girls in the adjacent changing booth?

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    • Jedi JJ

      May 22, 2014 at 11:05

      That sentence just brings up way too many questions about you.

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      • RinceofFuturePast

        May 22, 2014 at 11:11

        HAHA! I was referring to that flipping Japanese game featured yesterday 😛

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          May 22, 2014 at 11:12

          Of course you were.

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          • RinceofFuturePast

            May 22, 2014 at 11:13

            Did I tell you I’ve changed my bathroom to now contain 2, yes TWO, changing rooms? 0-O What do you want on your pizza tomorrow? 0-O

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            May 22, 2014 at 11:20

            Megan Fox.

          • Kromas

            May 22, 2014 at 11:22

            Ill have some of that.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            May 22, 2014 at 11:23

            If I wanted to share I wouldn’t be a PC gamer 😉

          • Kromas

            May 22, 2014 at 11:28

            What do you mean? We created the piracy industry just so we can share stuff. We also created mass sharing via peer to multi-peer sharing apps (Torrents for those who don’t know.) So sharing Megan Fox should be easy enough considering we all watched Resident Evil Apocalypse and now know how to clone Milla …. oh wait … Ill have one Milla Jovovich please.

          • RinceofFuturePast

            May 22, 2014 at 11:28

            COMMENT of the week 🙂

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            May 22, 2014 at 11:30

            Stop ruining my jokes with facts.

          • RinceofFuturePast

            May 22, 2014 at 11:24

            Well, she certainly couldn’t act her way off a pizza.

          • Jedi JJ

            May 22, 2014 at 11:27

            Hopefully to stuff in an oven, not for anything else.

          • RinceofFuturePast

            May 22, 2014 at 11:28

            Agreed. Can’t believe they’ve put her in the next TMNT movie 🙁 You know, the one staring Zuma…

          • Jedi JJ

            May 22, 2014 at 11:48

            LOL!
            I agree. If they had those old Turtles in the movie (the guys in the plastic suits), the turtles would still be the ones with less plastic in them.

        • VampyreSquirrel

          May 22, 2014 at 11:14

          Suuuurrrre you were…

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    • CAE9872

      May 22, 2014 at 11:25

      Never touched one I suppose?

      EDIT : Game! Not schoolgirls…GAME!

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      • RinceofFuturePast

        May 22, 2014 at 11:27

        BWAHAHAHAHAH!

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  5. Archzion

    May 22, 2014 at 11:03

    IF GTA V goes to PS Vita before PC. I am seriously going to be pissed.

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  6. HisDivineOrder

    May 22, 2014 at 14:17

    Here’s hoping it’s GTA V: Citiy Stories EXCLUSIVELY for iOS and Android devices.

    That’d rock. Then console gamers would “enjoy” the same “experience” as PC gamers waiting on GTA V! 😉

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