Universal gains rights to Asteroid

We shit you not - the wireframe classic will become a film.

We now have indelible proof that Hollywood has a) absolutely no shame, and b) has finally run out of ideas. Universal movie studios has just secured the rights to make a feature film (you know, with a script, and plot, and actual actors) of the rather fun yet un-deep classic game Asteroid.

Given it's a game that features no characters, zero dialogue and almost zero plot ('asteroids/UFOs bad, your ship good' almost counts), this is one of the most baffling things we've heard all year.

That said, we're kinda looking forward to seeing what kind of plot Universal (and the film's writer, Matthew "Race to Witch Mountain" Lopez) can wrap around the ship-meets-asteriods-ship-destroys-asteroids premise. Will we see a plucky asteroid miner battling his own demons while dodging an insidious alien threat? Or the story of a man driven to rocky revenge by the death of his family in a space-rock-related collision?

Who knows? And, arguably... who cares?