Released for the Nintendo DS earlier this year, "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars" debuted on the PSP this week. The new version of "Chinatown Wars" offers much of the same experience as far as your ability to blow up, assassinate, terrorize and drug-hustle your way through Liberty City's underworld as its DS counterpart, with a variety of tweaks to the graphics and controls, as well as some extra missions exclusive to the PlayStation format.

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After surprisingly low sales for "GTA: Chinatown Wars" on the DS (for a "GTA" game, at least), Rockstar is trying again on the PSP, where they've had a lot of success with "Liberty City Stories" and "Vice City Stories."

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"Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars" started out as an exclusive title for the DS and just keeps getting less and less exclusive as the months roll on. After announcing the game's release for the PSP in June, Rockstar has revealed that they'll be taking it to the iPhone and iPod Touch as well.

"'Chinatown Wars' is a perfect match for the iPhone and iPod touch," Rockstar president Sam Houser said in the announcement, according to 1UP. "We are very excited to bring this incredibly ambitious version of Liberty City, with this level of detail and immersive gameplay on Apple's new gaming platforms."

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Rockstar Games announced today that "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars" will be PSP this fall.

The game will be a port of the up-until-now-exclusive DS game, which released to extremely favorable reviews but middling sales. Many attributed the DS's lower numbers of "hardcore" users as the cause for the less-than-stellar sales, so the PSP release should be an interesting test to see how well it performs (despite that platforms' considerably lower install base).

Like all new PSP games going forward, "GTA: Chinatown Wars" will be released as a downloadable title in the PSN store, as well as a straight UMD release, thus supporting the PSP Go and the older, disc-based PSP.