To understand what PAIN's all about, you're actually best off watching the first trailer from the game which is in our video player yonder right.
In a nutshell, it involves firing a character from a launching device and attempting to score points by stringing together painful collisions with a physics-powered environment.
Sony promises it'll be funny, in the way the FlatOut series elicits a chuckle or two in the fling-driver-through-windscreen minigames, we guess.
Anyway, watch the trailer. There's no release date as yet.