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GRATS! All Aboard the Hype Train!

Are you aware that there’s an unseen force guiding your thoughts and telling you what to think? That whatever it is this force tells you is coming, you listen to it and wait with bated breath? My friends that is the power of Hype! It is a force like a Jedi waving her hand at you saying “This is the game you are looking for…”

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Thrall gets a new look!

Boubouille over at MMO Champion once again has posted up some amazing Cataclysm content and recently he’s uncovered a new NPC model for none other than Thrall himself! I gotta say he’s looking pretty awesome now. Gone are his trademark shoulders and the Doomhammer. Now it looks like he’s tossed that all in and become [...]

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Walk like an Egyptian….again

No, sorry folks, this isn’t a new issue of GRATS! – but I can assure you there are two new issues in the works. Frankly, I couldn’t pass up my commentary on this new video from the Cataclysm beta build. Been watching the preview videos for Uldum, particularly the great commentary by Total Biscuit (the [...]

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GRATS! There’s no CC in real life!?!

Click to view the larger version of this comic We’ve heard and seen it all before: the basic triad of class roles for group dynamics in almost every single MMO. That is the basic triad of Tank, Healer, and DPS. The tank’s roles being the one to take damage and control aggro, the DPS’ job [...]

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GRATS! Speaking About Voice

Click to view the larger version of this comic A lot of my articles and comics that I work on deal with that elusive topic of immersion. That is the concept of just how much a video game draws you in and makes you feel a part of whatever world the developers worked so hard [...]