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Scott McCrae

Viral co-op climbing game Peak gets hit with a wave of rip-offs on PS5, but this isn't the devs' first rodeo as they've been "reporting a bunch" of "AI slop things for the past year"

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Peak screenshot showing two characters holding umbrellas in the desert.

Peak has joined the elite squad of "PC-only viral hits with fake AI slop console clones" as a listing has popped up on the PlayStation Store.

Sadly, as soon as a popular game explodes onto the scene and is PC exclusive, the natural next step is for other developers to try to get something similar onto the PlayStation Store and Nintendo eShop. We saw this earlier this year when open-world drug 'em up Schedule 1 had multiple fake versions appear on consoles with the likes of "Dope Wars: Schedule 1" and "Schedule 1: Mafia Empire."

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