I’ve wanted to play the by-all-accounts-terrible Homefront Revolution because it’s in Philadelphia. Games never take place in Philly.

As another Chicagoan, hear hear.

Yeah, I could see that. As a fellow Chicagoan, I’ll stay away, thanks! I just saw pics of...the Loop, I think? and got excited when WD debuted.

Don’t. As a Chicagoan, it barely represents Chicago, except maybe Navy Pier, which is pretty good, and a couple other landmarks. Otherwise, it feels like something someone from the West Coast made after reading the Wikipedia entry of Chicago.

Honestly, the tourist thing is something the Assassin’s Creed games have always been great at, and is one of the reasons I wanted to give the original Watch Dogs a shot.

I’m not from there but spent four years in Bridgeport. It was awful on every level—apparently in the next 20 years, half the city will sink into the lake, the grid layout of the streets will be replaced with inefficient winding roads, Skokie will move closer to the city, arictecture will become bland and boring, and…

If a feature no one knows how to use breaks, is it really broken?

Ouch. I had heard about this a few months back but just from the Spanish translation team, which had gone on strike back in February. There was a thread on reddit started by the head of the translation team, which has sadly been partially deleted. There were some articles about it, if you feel like doing some reading: …

Luckily, the A’s are used to other teams completely erasing their leads.

Importantly, one must remember that there is no such thing as a Golden Showa Day.

Yeah, bit of hyperbole.

The Friday night death slot is only such for TV shows that depend on ratings to draw in advertising dollars. E-Sports is incredibly, incredibly niche, not to mention the fact that the financial investment on the part of TBS is minuscule compared to them having to create their own show from the…