Rockstar has kept to their word. Back in late January Vice City was made available on PSN, and Rockstar signed off their release announcement with the promise of future announcements regarding more PS2 Classics heading to PSN soon. They've just announced that both Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories will be making their way to PSN this coming week, and the original Midnight Club, along with Midnight Club 2, are available right now.

All four PS2 Classics are available for US$9.99.

This announcement follows what we predicted in our previous article; both Midnight Club 1 & 2 had been re-rated for PlayStation 3 at the time of writing and were expected to be making their way to PSN in the very near future. Vice City Stories had also been re-rated, so it was obvious itself and Liberty City Stories would follow not to long after. Interestingly enough, LCS has not been re-rated according to the ESRB website at this time.

Rockstar once again signed off the announcement with a promise along the same lines as last time:

Stay tuned for word on more Rockstar titles coming soon to the PS2 Classics collection.

The PS2-era catalogue has been nearly exhausted. The only remaining PS2-era games not released on PSN thus far are the original Manhunt, Manhunt 2, Max Payne 2, The Warriors and State of Emergency. Fans have been vocal about their desire to see Max Payne 2 on PSN, alongside Max Payne 1 which was released on PSN last year, and I'd say it's a given that we'll see it next. The Warriors was a terrific game, one which would be great to play again on PSN, and I'm throwing my support behind it also. The Manhunt series could be more tricky, particularly in the UK and AU were the two remain banned - could certainly see it headed to the US PSN though if Rockstar feels that's adequate. State of Emergency seems a little left-field, and whilst I could see a PSN release being a new-beginning for it, I can't really see it being at the top of the list.

As always, I'll keep you updated on any news regarding future PSN releases.

I got my hands on a book of sorts this week that I thought some of you out there might like. Back in 2005, Rockstar sent out two books for Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and The Warriors to store managers to promote the games. The books have scans of different magazines of the time talking about the game. I was only able to score the book for Liberty City Stories. I've scanned the book and put them into a PDF for easy reading. I don't have any of the DVD's referenced in the letter. When I get some time I may re-scan the book in better quality.

Download: Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories - Selected Press Clippings

As I was looking around on GameStop's website today, I came across two Grand Theft Auto bundle packs that have yet to be announced by Rockstar. One pack for the PC is exactly like the trilogy packs released for the PS2 and Xbox consoles. It includes GTAIII, Vice City and San Andreas. We're not sure at the moment if the games have been patched to correctly work on newer OSes. (Personally, I don't have a problem with the games on Vista but some have reported various problems) The other pack for the PlayStation 2 includes both Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories. Both bundles will retail for $30. The PC pack releases on 30th of this month and the Stories pack releases on the 23rd.

GameStop: GTA PC, Stories PS2

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has been sending an email to PlayStation Store users details the latest additions to the PlayStation Store. Among the additions is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories to the legacy game downloads. We'll update this post once the games are posted.

EDIT: The US store was just updated and it doesn't seem to include the games.

Source: SCEE

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories are still high in the UK charts this week, and from the looks of it they both have been for several months now, coming in at 1st and 2nd place respectively.

Seems like a familiar sight doesn't it? Probably because they have been taking the 1st and 2nd places for several months now, non-stop, so congrats Rockstar North on a terrific job. If you didn't think the portables were a success before, you should now.

Gamesultra brang us this newest update on the rankings, thanks guys!

Rockstar is in Amazon's top 5 game sales statistics this week, the 31st week of 2007. Taking an equal number of first and third places for their PlayStation Portable versions of Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories. The results are for North America, Japan and Europe: