In this case the games ARE canon.
They retconned his eye shine abillity. During Pitch Black he did get his eyes shined.
There was this flash animation on the Pitch Black website at the time that showed this. Riddick was transferred to a prison on the moon called Luna max. There he tries to escape and jumps in a pit. In the pit he encounters people who got their eyes shined because its so dark.
Riddick finds a doctor who is able to do the procedure, but the doc tells him theres a big chance he won't survive the surgery. Riddick wants it anyway, even refusing any form of anesthetic. (cus Riddick luv dah pain, yo)
He then continues to escpae, and then Johns gets sent to get him back.
It was badass, way better than the stupid superhuman thing.
In the Riddick game Escape from butcher bay, they sort of mix the original story with the retconned one. Instead of Luna Max its a prison called Butcher Bay, on a planet. And Johns is the one taking him there as a prisoner.
At this point, Riddick still has normal eyes. Soon after arriving Riddick sets his escape in motion. When he tries to get out, he uses a place called The Pit. Its a dark underground sort of sewer. There he finds pope Joe and he offers to stitch Riddick's cut on his arm.
After the stitcing Riddick wants to leave through a hole in the wall that leads to the guard quarters. Before he tries to do this, he gets a vison, sort of awakening from some Furyan woman that tells him he's been blind for too long. He then magicly recieves his eye shine trait. He first thinks pope joe did this, but he didn't. Joe asks what Riddick sees and Riddick's answers with:"Everything!"
The game takes place in a flashback that Riddick has when is on the ice planet that you see in the first part of Chronicles of Riddick. Riddick remembers it as sort of a repressed memory as if he at the time of Pitch Black, Riddick actually thought it was a surgery.
Anyway, I prefer the original origins for his eye shine. At the time it was a sci-fi. Now its more like a sience fiction fantasy story.
Sorry for the long post and perhaps bad English.
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