By this point, we're all aware of just how much slop there is on any of the major gaming storefronts. For instance, the Nintendo eShop is home to a "provocative" One Piece clone titled Pirate Anime Quest: One Boys' Journey, A Piece of Island Love. Elsewhere, the PlayStation Store, which is littered with shovelware and spam games, made an effort to delete many of them back in February, but it's a losing battle.
Just let me play my games already.
However, things took a rather interesting turn when it was discovered that the Xbox storefront was playing host to an edited version of a PlayStation title being run via emulation. The game, which has since been removed by Microsoft, was sold and passed off as a legitimate game.
As first spotted by TrueAchievements, and as reported on originally by Digital Foundry, Anti-Gravity Racing WipEout was originally released in April and sold for $14.99, except there's just one problem — it's not an original game.
Through some handy side-by-side and general gaming knowledge, John Linemann was able to determine that the game was largely nothing more than an emulated version of the original WipEout series, specifically WipEout and WipEout 3: Special...