If you liked Uncharted: Golden Abyss on PlayStation Vita, then you’re in luck. It appears that Sony Bend, the first party studio behind the game, is working on a new Vita offering.

Gamasutra has a job listing for a senior staff technical animator at Sony Bend (as Tweeted to us by IGN reader NKilburne), and the job description gives away that Bend is toiling away on a new Vita game.

“Bend Studio[,] the creators of Sony’s flagship Vita title Uncharted[:] Golden Abyss is currently looking for the entertainment industries [sic] top artistic talent to help us create AAA content for Sony’s powerful new hardware,” the listing reads. “We just scratched the surface on what the Vita can do with Uncharted[:] Golden Abyss and expect to push the platform even further with our future projects.”

Sony Bend was originally known as Eidetic, and was founded in 1994. In 2001, Sony purchased the studio outright, renamed it Sony Bend after the Oregon town the small developer is located in, and unleashed them to develop almost exclusively for handhelds from that time forward. Bend is best-known for its Syphon Filter series, though it also created the 2009 PSP shooter Resistance: Retribution before moving on to Golden Abyss.

Bend has been rumored to have been working on a new Syphon Filter game since 2009; the rumor most recently reared its head right before Vita’s western launch. However, the project has yet to materialize. Could this new Vita game be the much-anticipated return of the Syphon Filter franchise? Could it be a new Uncharted game? Or is it something else entirely?

We’ve reached out to Sony for comment and will update when we hear back. In the meantime, why not read our complete history of Sony Bend?

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