Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Tops PSN Charts In August

Sony has released a list of the top selling games for PlayStation Network through August and, coming as no surprise to old school first-person shooter fans, Counter-Strike Global Offensive led the charge, taking home the monthly victory as the top gun to beat. It'll probably face some really, really stiff competition from Gearbox Software's Borderlands 2 for September, though.

PlayStation Digital Platforms Community Manager Morgan Haro made this month's figures official through the PlayStation Blog, highlighting other big releases like Sound Shapes for the Vita and, back in the number one spot, Final Fantasy VII as a PS One Classic. Given the recent Vita update that allows a collection of PS1 games to be playable on Sony's newest handheld, it will be interesting to see how those numbers shift through the month of September.

Here's the top five games for each platform through August, 2012.

PSN and PS3 Full Games
1. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
2. The Walking Dead: Episode 3
3. Madden NFL 13
4. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
5. Sound Shapes

Vita
1. Sound Shapes
2. Table Top Tanks
3. Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection
4. Madden NFL 13
5. Plants vs. Zombies

PS2 Classics
1. War of the Monsters
2. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES
3. Need for Speed Most Wanted
4. Shinobi
5. Psychonauts

PS One Classics
1. Final Fantasy VII
2. Legend of Dragoon
3. Final Fantasy IX
4. Crash Bandicoot
5. Final Fantasy VIII

PSP
1. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
2. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
3. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
4. Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
5. Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy

Minis
1. Angry Birds
2. The Impossible Game
3. Monopoly
4. I Kill Zombies
5. Wizorb