Week in gaming: Battlefield 3 is only bad if you play it alone
This week was dominated by Battlefield 3, and we spent many late nights playing the game for review. The single-player portion of the game may be terrible, but the multiplayer is absolutely amazing. We're still hearing reports of Origin giving people trouble when they go to play their game or redeem a content code, so be aware that the problems may not be completely fixed.
What else was big news last week? A little game called Uncharted 3, for starters. It's out on Tuesday, and it's amazing. Come read our review to find out why.
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Week in Apple: 10-year iPod anniversary edition
This week marked the 10-year anniversary of the first iPod introduction, so we re-reviewed the original iPod and took a look back on a decade of iPod design evolution. Our other top posts for the week included an excerpt from Steve Jobs' biography about his disdain for Android, a look at the 2011 iPod nano's fitness features, a review of a Jobs-themed one-man show, a discussion about solar panels, and more. Time for the weekly roundup!
The original iPod, 10 years later: a re-review: Ever wondered how well an original iPod would hold up ten years later?
Jobs ruled out $5 billion settlement: "I will spend my last dying breath" fighting Android: Steve Jobs was so angered by Android and HTC that he reportedly told then Google bossman Eric Schmidt that no amount of money could make the "grand theft" right.
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Week on the Web: ocelots, Android license fees, and more
Desktop dreams: Ubuntu 11.10 reviewed: Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed Oneiric Ocelot, was released earlier this month. In this review, Ars takes a close look at the new release to see how Unity has progressed since the previous version, whether Thunderbird holds up as the new default e-mail client, and where the Software Center is going.
Microsoft collects license fees on 50% of Android devices, tells Google to "wake up": After signing patent licensing agreements with 10 Android vendors, Microsoft claims that it now collects licensing fees for more than half of all Android devices.
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Week in IT: why folks <3 their BlackBerrys
Why people still use BlackBerry: keyboards, security, and IT requirements: We argued last week that RIM is being eaten alive by the consumerization of IT. But not everyone thinks RIM is doomed, and in fact the company still has fans who swear by the BlackBerry form factor and RIM security.
Anonymous takes down darknet child porn site on Tor network: The hacktivist group Anonymous has targeted child pornographers who use the hidden services of the Tor network with a pair of attacks on sites, and promises more. The attacks highlight the darker side of the Tor network, which has also recently been the target of DMCA actions.
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Week in science: skeptics convinced, living fossils multiply
Climate skeptics perform independent analysis, finally convinced Earth is getting warmer: A group of physicists decided they didn't trust climate scientists, so they set up an independent analysis of the global temperature records. The numbers are in, and the climatologists had it right all along. Where does that leave the people who were raising questions about whether the Earth was really warming?
Meet Wolbachia: the male-killing, gender-bending, gonad-eating bacteria: Different strains of the bacteria Wolbachia can take over the reproductive systems of the organisms they infect, with some remarkably bizarre results.
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