In today’s Georgia Straight is my latest “Trigger Happy” column. This week, I look at some of the recent video game adaptations of movies, from The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (awesome) to X-Men Origins: Wolverine (also awesome), from Watchmen: The End is Nigh to Star Trek: D-A-C (both okay). I even touch on Wanted: Weapons of Fate (also okay) and Terminator Salvation (ugh). And more!

The summer blockbuster season is upon us, and these days big movies get big video games. I find that the most successful movie-based video games are those that don’t try to rehash the film but instead use the celluloid story and setting as inspiration.