Star Trek: Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams has said that Digital Extremes' Star Trek game -- which IGN disliked -- "without question didn't help the movie, and arguably hurt it."

Abrams expressed interest in the possibility of future Star Trek games, but expresses, "The last game, which was obviously a big disappointment to me, was something that we were actually involved in at the very beginning...and then we sort of realized that it was not going in a place that we were going to get what we wanted." Abrams told Gamerhub . "So we dropped out and they continued to do it despite…y'know."The director -- who will not helm Star Trek 3 -- hopes to see adaptations of any kind existing "on its own terms," because "a lot of times these sort of exist as ancillary products, in which case they will suck."Additionally, Abrams reminds us that he's involved in "a couple projects with Valve," which includes Portal and Half-Life films , as well as an Abrams-owned game idea he hopes Valve will work on. You can catch Abrams and Valve's Gabe Newell discussing their partnership here on IGN

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