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<cite>Pain</cite> Tops 2008 PSN Download List

Would you believe that the most downloaded game on Sony’s PlayStation Network this year was a title about flinging stereotypical characters at brick walls? The latest episode of Sony’s "video magazine" Pulse offers a list of the top ten most downloaded titles for the online service and Idol Minds’ Pain comes in at number one. […]

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Would you believe that the most downloaded game on Sony's PlayStation Network this year was a title about flinging stereotypical characters at brick walls?

The latest episode of Sony's "video magazine"Pulse offers a list of the top ten most downloaded titles for the online service and Idol Minds' Pain comes in at number one.

Here's the full run-down:

  1. Pain
  2. High Velocity Bowling
  3. Super Stardust HD
  4. PixelJunk Monsters
  5. flow
  6. Warhawk
  7. Aquatopia
  8. Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
  9. High Stakes Poker
  10. Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty

It certainly helps that Pain was available for the entirety of 2008 (having been released in November 2007), but more surprising is that neither high-profile releases like Namco's Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection nor critical darlings like PixelJunk Monsters could topple the Sony-published title.

And I'm more than a little stunned that Capcom's phenomenal Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix didn't even make the list.

Image courtesy Sony

Pain Is the Most Downloaded Game on PSN in 2008 [1up]