E3 2012: My top 3 winners (and the biggest losers) [VIDEOS]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week then you know that E3 2012 is finishing today (with Nintendo’s 9 AM Wednesday presentation closing out the keynotes). On the whole, as a hardcore gamer, things were pretty disappointing. Arguably, all platforms had their ups and downs, but it was a pretty weak E3 in total. I personally think this is because two of the big three console manufacturers (Sony and Microsoft) are doing their best to milk existing technology to casual markets while developing their next gen consoles.
Regardless, everyone had something to offer. My three favorite game announcements were…
Halo 4
It really does look like turning over the IP to 343 Industries from Bungie was a good move, because our first glimpse of Halo 4 looks nothing like a rehash of prior games. A brand new enemy race with some incredibly different mechanics that look like a whole lot of fun to kill. This will breathe some much needed life into my Xbox360, which has been turned off since the Halo 1 anniversary edition.
Like many others, I was somewhat disappointed by the Halo Reach release when it came to online play. The Spartan powers were gimmicky and unpredictable; you could never be assured that your skill would ensure success. I hope this game will be a return to the online greatness that was Halo 3.
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Winners! Results of the Razer BF3 event
Congratulations to Limited Warranty from North America and Lethal-zone from Europe for winning four (4) Razer Battlefield 3 Imperators and four (4) Razer Battlefield 3 Scarabs each by successfully playing on GamersPortal‘s Scrim Finder!
For all those who participated: There is always next time to win! We plan on having many more giveaways so be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and keep checking your email (very important!) to stay up-to-date on any future events.
To those who did not participate: YOU’RE MISSING OUT! 
You could have won some prizes.
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Clan War/Scrim Day with Razer prizes!
You read right, get a chance to win Razer prizes by just showing up and getting a PCW/Scrim on GamersPortal.com/scrims. Be sure to register and create your team beforehand so that you can be ready!
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Clan Spotlight on Team Axion
For this spotlight, we interview Team Axion. You can view their portal on Gamers Portal here.
Tell us the story of how your clan was formed… How did your clan get to where it’s at today? How long has your clan been around?
Axion was founded around 1999 by Demo and Evol. It was started with an intent to compete against other teams in Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear. We laddered endlessly with a desire to succeed and be the best Rogue Spear team. We experienced much success as a team on the two most popular ladders which we participated on. As the community began to fade out, so did Axion around 2003. Some members moved on to other games while some stopped gaming completely.
Axion was revived once again in October 2011 with the release of Battlefield 3. Most of the original members have been reinstated. Original members reconnected with old friends from other Rogue Spear competitive teams as well as finding new members with strong backgrounds in competitive Counter-Strike. Now almost a decade later Axion is back in full force.
More detailed information about our history can be found at TeamAxion.com/about/history
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The Wii U — What is an R700 GPU and why does it matter?
What is an R700 GPU?
So we’ve all heard the rumors about Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U console, and how it’s going to be some strange tablet-y thing with a touchscreen and analog sticks and a microwave and a cat. Or something. It’s all very interesting and strange and I don’t really care because it’s going to be obsolete the minute you finish the next Zelda title. Here’s why.
The rumor mill started saying early on that the Wii U would use an AMD/ATI Radeon R700 GPU, and it’s been all but confirmed by Nintendo. But what does that mean? What is an R700 GPU?
Complicated and relevant nonsense
Let’s start with the basics. A GPU is a Graphics Processing Unit, that is the chip in a computer or console that processes geometry, textures, lighting, and postprocessing effects and composites them into the image that you see on your screen when you play a video game. Modern GPUs use dozens or hundreds (or even thousands) of tiny, specialized microprocessors called “shaders” to execute the complex mathematical operations that turn a collection of binary digits and code into an actual image. A system’s GPU is the primary determinant of the quality of graphics that it displays. [Read More]
Clan Spotlight on Nothing But Skillz Gaming
For this spotlight, we interview NBS (Nothing But Skillz) Gaming. You can view their portal on Gamers Portal here.
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Tell us the story of how your clan was formed… How did your clan get to where it’s at today? How long has your clan been around?
The clan started off as a Dutch and Belgian only Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Scrim team. It was founded in 2010 by the current owner Bas ‘Woooooo’ Appelman. Bit by bit it became bigger in the ET pro scene and NBS became international.
Until August ’11 NBS was ET (Enemy Territory) only, until Brink came out. Brink was meant to be the first next game of NBS in its way to a larger MGC covering many other games. However, Brink failed and we started looking at other games.
Later on we even bought our own dedicated system to host our servers on. As soon as we had that, we expanded to several other games such as: Call of Duty 4, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Counter-Strike 1.6 and League of Legends.
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- Willingness to spend the time to write meaningful content for the Gamers Portal blog (generally between 500 and 1000 words)
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