In this week’s edition of Vancouver’s Georgia Straight is my latest ‘Trigger Happy’ column. This edition of the column is a look at Electronic Arts’ NHL 09, which to my mind is the best hockey game available.

The main feature is an interview with lead producer David Littman and the sidebar is a review of the game.

Published today in the Globe & Mail’s Technology section is my article looking at Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour, in which I wonder what the future of music video games might look like.

Interviews included Greg LoPiccolo from Harmonix, Kai Huang from RedOctane, and the enlightened Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk.

When the video game Rock Band was released last year, it reset the baseline for music games. Guitar Hero, which established the market for such games in North America, is still popular, but players can only take on the guise of a guitarist. With Rock Band, gamers can play bass, drums, or even vocals.

“Wear the World on Your Heart” is the tag phrase for Joy Apparel, a Toronto company that is helping to change the world, one t-shirt at a time.

Each Joy t-shirt sports the same design: a line drawing of a person’s face over the left breast, and a name in handwritten script underneath.

The faces are all of real people who have uploaded their images to the Joy Apparel site with the express purpose of having their visage turned into a drawing and sold on a t-shirt.

The image here is of Megumu Seki, who presumably prompted the entire endeavour.

From the site:

Every face on a Joy T-Shirt has been inspired by a real person. When you wear your shirt you are encouraged to think about that person and how your everyday actions can affect others and the world we live in.

It’s a fascinating idea, made more interesting because unless you have purchased a t-shirt, you cannot submit a photo to be turned into a future shirt. It’s Tee 2.0!

I wonder who’s image sells the most shirts?

I’ve again been remiss in posting links to the many television columns and interviews I’ve published over at CinemaSpy.

Here’s what’s appeared there in the past couple of months, ordered from most recent to oldest:

• Remote View: Setting Up the Season Pass
• Colin Ferguson interview
• Remote View: Reinventing the Repeating Day
• David Hewlett interview
• Joe Flanigan interview
• Jason Momoa interview
• Rachel Luttrell interview
• Jewel Staite interview
• Preparing for ‘The Dark Knight’
• Batman: Gotham Knight review
• Batman Begins review

Via Wil Wheaton is this must-read article at the Geekdad blog (part of the Wired network), about how to maintain – and nurture – your kid’s natural desire to roleplay as they grow up.

Children are born to role play. It is one of the key ways in which children learn. Ok, so it isn’t all dice, paper and miniatures, but children have been creating their own RPGs forever. They don’t even use dice.

The article is written by Daniel Donahoo. I think I’ll be reading some more of his articles.