Russ Frushtick and Chris Plante of UGO.com writes:
"There are those moments when the music swells, you walk up to a chest, open it, and can't help but deflate at the sheer crappiness of what's inside. Not every item is created equal and we thought we'd take a look at some of the more worthless baubles throughout video game history."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I'm not sure this list is complete without mentioning one of, or collectively, the thousands of pieces of useless crap in an Elder Scrolls game or Fallout 3.
I immediately thought of toilet paper in FFVII. Conspiracy theories abounded over that one. Spent hours trying to give it to that indisposed gentleman in Rocket Town.
List is kinda weak though.
SF's Vega? Halo's Needler? MGS's cigs? Castlevania's daggers?
All highly useful if you know how.
I always like to be reminded about Shenmue, such a great game , i spent hours just playing Hang On and Space Harrier in the arcade on that game. The Capsules were pretty useless though.
I thought they would have included the Crocodile Cap from MGS3: Snake Eater. I could never find a single situation in which enemy soldiers were near enough to a lake or other body of water and I could use the cap to disguise as a crocodile and go in for a stealth kill. The idea is cool, but its totally useless.
The cigarettes proved more useful in MGS4; they depleted health but restored Old Snake's Psyche.
Has the most useles items in any video game ever. tongs, plates, knifes, forks, shears, etc.