Five game accessories you don’t need

The video game industry is littered with terrible gadgets. But while the gaudiest gear — Nintendo’s ROB the Robot and PowerGlove, or the original Xbox’s massive Steel Battalion setup — score headlines, it’s the smaller bits and baubles that can really make you crazy.

Intended to make your gaming experience smoother, easier, smarter, or prettier, the worst extras often wind up spending more time in a drawer than your hands. Here are a few pieces of gaming hardware you should probably play without:

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The Biggest Video Game Publisher You’ve Never Heard of

Investors in the video game space understandably focus a lot of their attention on the larger publicly traded companies.

Publishers like Activision, Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive, after all, have some of the biggest titles in gaming. Privately held publishers, on the other hand, tend to either be based outside of the U.S. or lack a major intellectual property.

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