Part of the “charm” was that the hotel rooms were actually part of the larping experience ( basically, here’s your cramped bunk like it would be on a cruise ship in space).  Pulling out the parp aspect basically leaves you with over-sized Japanese capsule hotel storage rooms.

jeez. Mario Kart 8 sold 55 million copies?

Frankly, I’m more surprised that it’s only the 9th, and that there are 8 other games that have sold at least 20 million copies on the Switch.

So now I need to see Stomp do a version of this.

Yeah, if the Internet existed in 1980s, io9 would have a post with people freaking out about "wait, someone is turning Little Shop of Horrors into a musical? That's just stupid!"

I mean, the biggest TV show of the last 20 years was nothing but complicated politics and drama for it’s first 3 seasons. You can sell anyone on complicated plots and politics if you write good characters making sensible choices in their world, and give them some action and eye-candy in between.

Yeah that the infuriating aspect of this. "How dare you make money off a cheap knockoff of one of our brands while we make money off a cheap knockoff from someone else's brand."

Having other characters follow you around though is hardly a new thing. The original Half-Life did it ( and I’m sure that there are earlier examples).

As good double agents... You wouldn't know the difference.  

I’ve watched The Boys. I know where that leads

Executive producer on a lot of these shows is kind of a meaningless title. Oscar Isaacs is an XP on Moon Knight, Ewan McGregor is an XP on Obi Wan. Hiddleston is an XP on Loki, and so on.

His best friend is a mad scientist who made an entire armored flight suit that hcan shoot missiles and lasers that can hide inside a tic tac box..... But it’s unfathomable he can't have small walking assist tech under his pants?

Having an AI that can competently run a true tabletop D&D session is actually somewhat of a holy grail project.

No one wants a blumhouse Haunted Mansion movie. The problem is that no one wanted an Eddie Murphy comedy that, from the trailers, had absolutely nothing to do with the Haunted Mansion ride either... It was just Eddie Murphy schtick.

yeah. Reading a Chris Claremont era X-Men book actually meant that you had to .....read.

I wouldn’t mind watching a 10 episode D+ show of how Tom Holland got is Spiderman powers. There HAS to be an interesting story there, somewhere.

“hmmm....can we make an Uno and Big Mouth Bass movie that tie together with Barbie somehow in the Mattel Cinematic Universe?”

Is Shang Chi really overpowered? I just thought he was a normal dude who’s good at martial arts who just happens to have a weird set of jewelry which sort of extends his reach. It seems like he’s less powered than Iron Man 2-ish. Definitely less powered than “I have tech that can do anything I dream of” Iron Man in…

Well, you know there’s some executive sitting around going, “It’s just like how Furiosa was the main character in Fury Road...everyone love it! Now where’s my 9-iron....

I’m trying to figure out how this promotes Amazon.com. is Amazon starting an exclusive Jurassic Park series or something in Prime? it’s one to include something like this as a marketing budget byline for an upcoming movie project or something, but those just feels like some kinda of personal pet project. Amazon…