An early trailer featured Sum 41, but it appears that local music is well represented on Sega’s Vancouver 2010. The official video game of the Winter Olympics was released on January 11, with Living With Lions, Elizabeth, TV Heart Attack, Gob, Marianas Trench, Scatterheart, and Mother, Mother all turning up on the soundtrack. And as all right-thinking people know, any one of the above is infinitely better than Sum 41.

National Affair’s Jon Goodridge, whose band scored a slot with its punchy pop-punk track “Aiden”, told the Straight, “We’re stoked! It was kind of a whim. There was a little thing on the Music B.C. Web site that said ”˜Energetic rock bands needed for video game,’ and we thought, ”˜Shit, why not?’ I mean, we’re a brand-new band, we played three local shows in the fall, and all of a sudden we’re on a video game.” Best of all, said Goodridge, “We got paid!”

The singer added that video games as well as TV and film are becoming increasingly viable outlets for getting your music heard.

“We go to tons of seminars to find out what we can possibly do to make it as painless as possible for us to function as a band and not overwork ourselves on ridiculous tours that don’t make any money. We all did that. We’ve all toured across Canada two or three times.”