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This article is total crap, and the writer didn't do a minute of research before writing it. DigiPen does not pretend to be a school, you can check out their authorization information by following a link in the opening sentence of their main page, http://www.digipen.edu. I am a DigiPen student, and do you want to know what the school does with our games that they own? They research contests and festivals to submit the games to, they handle all the submission paperwork, they pay all the entry fees, and when the game is selected as a finalist, they email the students with the good news. Then they fly to the festival, they set up machines to play the games on, and they distribute copies of the game on disks from their booth. The students are the ones who go up on stage, shaking hands and being applauded. I don't think there has been a year since DigiPen began entering IGF that student games didn't end up as finalists, or win awards. As students we are told over, and over, and over again that DigiPen handles contest submissions for our games, and that we aren't allowed to try and to it ourselves.

In the case of Toblo, DigiPen submitted the game to the Slamdance festival as expected, which they do with every game deemed good enough. When the students who made the game heard about the Super Columbine RPG fiasco, they contacted Slamdance, acted as though they owned the IP, and had the game removed from the contest. They didn't contact DigiPen faculty and ask them to remove the game, giving their reasons, etc. What the students did was illegal, and they knew it, and all students are warned time and time again not to do it.

As far as DigiPen being "one of those fake schools," take a look at the course list and decide for yourself. Or you can accept the testimony of the all the graduates working at Nintendo, Valve, and all over the place. Nintendo Software Technology's technical department is 90% DigiPen grads, and the designers are 99% DigiPen grads, said Claude Comair when he was chairman of the board for Nintendo. He is the founder and president of DigiPen.

Commercials for Capcom games are always dumb.

This is a bunk rumor. Any of the very few DigiPen faculty who could possibly know such a thing wouldn't leak it, not by a long shot. Students here don't get this kind of information. The Computer Engineering students who got to work on virtual console games didn't get to know what games they were coding on, and that was last summer. Any student who's working at Nintendo would have the info because of Nintendo, not DigiPen. Besides, Nintendo doesn't keep this kind of news secret. As soon as they'd make an agreement with Sega they'd announce it, long before the games started getting worked on. They announced support for the current VC systems as soon as the deal was made, like a year before the Wii even came out. It's sweet sharing a building and parking lot with Nintendo, eating in Cafe Mario, and buying brand new Wii and DS games for $31 and $18, and getting free oscilloscopes, but that's where the sweetness stops. We don't have any secret info from Nintendo.

Everytime I've been in a walmart since their launch I've seen ps3's in stock. The walmarts I go to are in Everett, Lynnwood, and Marsville, WA (between 15 - 45 mins from Redmond, WA).

I got that soccer ball too. You can buy it at the Nintendo employee store :)

It's hard to believe a huge rich company like Microsoft wouldn't have a better replacement deal. You can tell how much a company cares about
their customers with situations like this.

Nintendo sends out a replacement system first, while waiting to receive yours (they take a credit card number as deposit). Hardly anybody knows this because Nintendo systems hardly ever break. In fact, many returns are dropped handhelds with scratched screens, not defective units. Their return rate in mid-2005 was around 0.12%. That's around one out of every thousand sold, compared to Microsoft's claimed one out of every 20-33 sold.

http://editorials.teamxbox.com/xbox/1651/The-Red-Ring-of-Death/p2/

I've been playing online on my Nintendo DS via wifi since last year. It's free.