I already said I like it, even if the whole navigation is now WRONG and the colors suck, overall the every page on the site now loads a lot faster. The main plus is that now Madster is gone, unless he already changed his mind.
The main drawback to this is now my favorite little Communist red and black site is now blue and white, and it looks like every other site around. You can blam me as much as you want, but it kinda looks like a better version of the new IGN layout.
Other than that, I just hope we don't start getting overflow from other game sites that GR may have swallowed up, and their forum users coming here and turning out to be assholes.
One upgrade I'd like to see (even if it isn't in its beta phase I'm calling this GR 2.0 beta) on the finished upgrade is an option to change the overall color scheme to different mixes so I can have my red and black back. That was the site's signature for like eleven years. Why change now?