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This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Super Nintendo in North America. (According to Nintendo, August 19th is itsofficialbirthday, although some stores didn’t get it in stock until August 23rd, 1991. History is confusing!) To celebrate this momentous occasion, we here at Destructoid are going to offer a variety of Super Nintendo-related content over the next seven days, starting today with this glorious introduction! Twenty years. I will never forget the day I got my Super Nintendo, so not only does this milestone make me feel really old, it brings back atonof wonderful memories....

…for messing with my favorite videogame series. Kidding. That was actually in bad taste, and here’s why. Screenwriter Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) is sitting in the slammer for causing a traffic accident in Southern California, saysComingsoon. The recently appointedSilent Hill 2screenwriter plead guilty of gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for a fatal accident that he caused last year. It was reported that he was driving over 100 mph. Drunk and that fast?...

Silicon Knights, last seem dividing the videogame community over its much-hypedToo Human, have been relatively quiet lately. Until recently, when a potential upcoming title —Siren in the Maelstrom— was revealed by Telefilm Canada on a list of upcoming projects. Speaking toEurogamer, a spokesperson for the developer was unsurprisingly quiet and vague. “Silicon Knights is busy working on several exciting projects. Unfortunately, it is too early to disclose any details.”...

Upon completing Tom Sennett and Matt Thorson’sRunMan: Race Around the World, I had only one thought — namely, that the two creators oughtta be drowning in money for making such a damned good platformer. I wondered if the two had considered pulling a Derek Yu, and making an updated version of the game for XBLA or PSN. “I would say don’t hold your breath,” Sennett said via email. “I’d much rather just make a brand new RunMan game....

Here we have the launch trailer forSpider-Man: Web of Shadowsand … whoa whoa whoa! What’s up with the emo-ness in this trailer? Oh man, it’s like I’m watchingSpider-Man 3again. Oh God, not again!!! Sure, the trailer is a bit melodramatic, but it really sets the mood for the game. Heroes and villains alike get infected with the Symbiote and it’s Peter Parker against all these odds, more or less by himself....

Uponyesterday’s announcement ofStar Wars: The Old Republic, many of us wondered if the MMO was eventually going to be console bound. The official line right now is PC-only, butEurogamerwas able to procure an interesting tidbit. Electronic Arts is considering bringingSW: TORandWarhammer Onlineto consoles. Electronic Arts president Frank Gibeau was fairly candid in his response to a question about bringSW: TORto consoles at the recent press event: We’re definitely looking at the opportunity to bring the MMO experience to console, without question....

Before we gettoosarcastic, let us not forget thatMaximis written by true gaming connoisseurs. After all, they are the only print magazine brave enough to voice what we all know — that50 Cent: Blood on the Sandis better thanKillzone 2. They’re also able to fully review any major videogame in 500 words or less. That’s hardcore!

Splinter Cell Convictionwas supposed to be out this year but got pushed back with a number of other Ubisoft titles. No word on when we’ll see most of Ubisoft’s impressive line-up, but we now know thatSplinter Cell Convictionwill be out on July 28, 2025 in America for the Xbox 360 and PC. Based on whatwe saw atE3, I am really looking forward toConviction. It was my game of the show during E3 and I’ve never liked aSplinter Cellgame up until then....

The above video is the brand new trailer for Level 5’s upcomingWhite Knight Story. The animation and art direction throughout the clip are utterly top-notch and the entire time it was playing — while holding a notebook over my genitals to avoid embarassment — I was giggling and clapping like a mongoloid child you’d see wandering the aisles of your local Wal-Mart wearing a helmet and drool bib while being distracted by shiny colors and bright signage....

Here’s a trailer, along with some screenshots forGhost Trickthat Capcom released yesterday. The video gives a good idea of what the gameplay and story of the DS game will be, as you see a swarthy gentlemen experiencing some car trouble at the hands of the player. It reminds me an awful lot ofGeist, a 2005 FPS for the Gamecube which failed pretty terribly. I rather liked the game but see much more promise inGhost Tricksimply because it’s trying to do less....

From Software are some real, tough dudes. Not in that they can kick my ass (probably), but in that their game design philosophy and dedication to their craft make other developers look like complete pants-pissing wimps. They don’t give interviews, because they rather have the games speak for themselves. They don’t make easy and simple games, because they WANT to play hard and complex games. Seeing the evolution of theDemon’s Soulsseries (alongsideArmored Core V) is seeing the evolution of From Software turning into an innovative Japanese developer that finds ways to appeal to a wider audience without sacrificing what makes their games so memorable....

It’s beennearly a monthsince iPad owners first started praising Geoff Keighley’s The Final Hours of Portal 2. Thankfully, the rest of us now have the opportunity to see what the fuss is about — this App has fittingly come toSteam for PC and Mac. The digital book retains its $1.99 asking price, and has all of the features present in the initial iPad version. For those unfamiliar, Keighley sat in on Valve for three years to make this story possible, something you almost never see happen in this industry....

Nintendo has filed a trademark in Europe forThe Last Window: Midnight Promise, providing the first hint thatHotel Dusk‘s sequel is coming to the West for we filthy round-eyed devils to enjoy. The Last Windowisn’t currently trademarked in the US, but hopefully it will be coming to North America too. It’s not like Nintendo to release something in Europe without releasing it in the States, because we’ve all established by now by Nintendo hates Europe....