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The Gray Matter bundle is a cosmetic purchase available for 1,600 COD Points in Black Ops IIII. It’s as mundane as it sounds—you get to unlock a fancy reactive camo effect for your weapons, but ultimately it’s just another pack in a multiplayer service game. Yet it’s also a tiny tribute, to a tiny studio that exerted an invisible influence on Treyarch during the most critical period in its history.
Gray Matter Interactive was the developer behind . In the ’90s, it had made the games: Sweary, gory, and self-consciously controversial first-person shooters that achieved the highest honour of the time—impressing
