Tag: duncan aird
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Pipe Dreams – Pricing Awareness
Duncan worries the latest generation of consoles may bring about the death of middle-tier games.
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Pipe Dreams – E3 2013 Edition
With E3 only a week away, Duncan lays out what sequels he’s hoping for from this year’s expo.
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Pipe Dreams – Wing Commander: Privateer 3
The DOS era was the Wild West of video games. No Internet, no rating boards, not even a truly reliable source of opinions – any game could be made and succeed, or fail, in the industry. Back in that age the best you could rely on was the developer’s reputation. If a company you trusted…
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Pipe Dreams – Dino Crisis 4
I don’t know when it happened, I don’t know why, but at one point in gaming history dinosaurs were rife in the gaming world and then suddenly… extinction. I’m sure that Turok’s last attempt wasn’t exactly helping to resurrect them, but back in the Nintendo 64/PlayStation era, the age of the dino-shooter was riding high.…
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Pipe Dreams – Command & Conquer 5
I miss the days when Starcraft II wasn’t the biggest AAA real time strategy game. I love Starcraft II, it’s a superb game which steals many of my hours in both play time and Youtube videos weekly, but I am still in love with the Command & Conquer franchise and wish more for it. My…
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Pipe Dreams – Galaxy Quest
I like to believe that we can all agree that Galaxy Quest is a brilliant movie. It was funny, humorous, hilarious, rib-tickling, witty, and starring Tim Allen. It has been one of the very few films I have endeavoured to buy on VHS, DVD, and Bluray upon release. Galaxy Quest hit us right at the…
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Pipe Dreams – Enslaved II
From the very beginning of this series, when I wrote the first five Pipe Dreams topics, I knew that this had to be done. Due to E3 and GAME related happenings it just took a bit longer than expected to finally vent. However, delays aside I think we can all agree that Enslaved II has…
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Pipe Dreams – E3 2012 Edition: What Went Wrong
E3 2012 is now over. Announcements have been made, press events presented, and some gamers left screaming in anger and confusion at both the organisers and each other. There were many jaw-dropping moments at the event, with some personal highlights being Watch_Dogs and The Last Of Us, but there were many things which were not…
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Pipe Dreams – E3 2012 Edition
It’s that glorious time of year where E3 is nearly upon us again. Which leaves people, like me, wondering just what glorious treasures are soon to be unearthed and presented to us. Luckily for me I don’t need to wait, because this is Pipe Dreams and I do not work here on rumours or leaks,…
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Pipe Dreams – Starship Troopers
Congratulations, recruit! By reading this blog post in full you are now guaranteed citizenship. If you are reading this as the preview on the front page then you are not doing your part. Be a member of the mobile infantry today and click the link now. Inside contains one of our scientist’s best game ideas.…