If you’ve ever scrolled through the PlayStation Store and stumbled across some games with an oddly familiar title, characters, or graphics, but only with cheap reskins and almost no originality, Sony has finally heard you.
The company has quietly wiped the entire catalogs of three publishers from the PlayStation Store: GoGame Console Publisher, VRCForge Studios, and Welding Byte. The removals were first potted on PSNProfiles, including popular titles such as Urban Driver Simulator, Water Blast Shooter – Wet Gun, and Supermarket CEO Simulator (via EuroGamer).
SonyWhat Is Shovelware anyway?
Shovelware is an umbrella term for games produced with minimal effort, cloning trending titles to ride their popularity, and those designed to hand players easy achievement or Trophy unlocks. Think of them as the cheap copies of popular titles that somehow made their way to the PlayStation Store by exploiting its relatively open submission
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