My latest “Trigger Happy” column in the Georgia Straight has published. This week I review two Nintendo DS titles: KORG DS-10 Synthesizer and Bangai-O Spirits. I also provide a details about a few headsets: SteelSeries 5H v2, PS3 Bluetooth, Psyko 5.1.

A gamer friend recently confessed to me that he turns the sound down when he plays video games at night. I was about to hand over a couple of games that I had agreed to lend him. “But you’re missing out,” I told him. “The sound design in a game is at least as important as all those lovely pixels.”