So I keep telling people about this and, understandably, no one is believing me. After what was described as "an intense bidding war by four major movie studios", Universal Studios has won the rights to make a movie based on the video game Asteroids.

That's right. We're talking about that arcade game from the 70s and 80s where your little line-art ship flies around and shoots rocks. There's no plot. No characters. Just shooting rocks. It's like making a movie about Tic-Tac-Toe.

Which, it seems, is not at all an outlandish comparison. Universal is also committed to bringing, get this, Hasbro board game properties to the big screen, citing examples such as Battleship and Candyland.

I guess these executives don't watch Robot Chicken.