Well we’re just going to have to chalk this up in the “Win” column for the aging-but-still-looking-pretty Xbox 360. Microsoft announced that Kinect, its new 3D-camera-based motion controller, has sold over 2.5 million units worldwide in its first 25 days of retail availability. Kinect is on pace to sell as well as it did during its first ten days, where the peripheral moved an estimated one million units in its first ten days of release in the United States and five days of availability in Europe.

The new figures also include other areas around the globe including Australia, New Zealand and Japan, where Kinect held a “quiet launch” of only 26,000 units. Additional sales figures for other regions were not released by Microsoft.

In fact, in a recent interview at Gamasutra, a Microsoft representative expected to sell three...

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is the first game in the series to support online multiplayer matches using the in-game engine, and it does it well. Spin-offs of the series have dabbled in online play, like Facebook's point-and-click  Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy and Twitter's AC game, which allow you to duel other members of the social networks based on your stats, or the iPhone's Assassin's Creed II Multiplayer (which I was never able to connect to). 

Brotherhood's multiplayer component builds upon what AC II Multiplayer was trying to do, but does it right and does it with all the functionality of the console games. 

World of Warcraft's latest update, patch 4.0.3, hit yesterday in preparation for Cataclysm's full launch on December 7th.  Deathwing has made quite a mess of old Azeroth, rending the landscape of WoW's original continents.  However, some new features, including the new races, starting areas, and old continent-flight won't go live until the 7th.

Log on to see for yourself, and click here to read the offical patch notes.

Quidditch, the magical sport conjured by J.K. Rowling for the Harry Potter series, is brought to the real world this weekend smack in the heart of NYC.  Featured in the HP novels, films, and video games, the sport was adapted for the real world in 2005 by Middlebury College student Xander Manshel.  Since then, hundreds of teams have been founded, and are overseen by the International Quidditch Association.

This weekend, the IQA is holding its fourth annual World Cup in De Witt Clinton park in New York City. The event runs November 13-14th, and features 76 teams & 757 players.  Stop by and see the game come to life!

Find out more here!

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With the help of a neat little applet created by 18-year-old Swede Erik Rothoff Andersson, you can now treat any webpage as if it were the seminal arcade space shooter, Asteroids.  Just go to Erik's site - erkie.github.com, click or drag the button, and you're off and running.  W for thrust, A & D to turn, and Space to shoot!

Like Erik says, it's great for blasting a path through annoying banner ads! :D

Angry Birds has risen to be the top game in the app game market, selling a ridiculous amount on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, with recent releases on Android, the Palm, the Nokia N900, and an upcoming release on PSP.

But instead of simply adding a couple of Halloween-themed levels in an update, Angry Birds has released a separate app exclusive to the iOS Apple apps, with 45 new spooky levels based on the addictive original and GameCenter integration for achievements and leaderboards.

Angry Birds Halloween swaps the original formula for seasonal skin, with Halloween-themed music, a background of an orangey skyline with a creepy bare tree and large, glowing moon, and replaces the boulders from the first game with large pumpkins.

But this is not simply a dressed up version of the popular game: it’s an expansion pack. With new levels and new challenges it extends the life of Angry Birds while banking on your seasonal spirit. That’s a good...

One rule of the wild is that cats love to play with a ball. This is the premise behind Cat Phyiscs, a standout puzzle game on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. This game may be several months old but it’s a game worth playing if you haven’t already, especially because Donut Games has recently added 20 free levels to its original 50 through an update.

The goal of the game is to get the ball from Cat A to Cat B. You first drag around the arrows on the screen, getting them into position so that when you tell the first cat to launch the ball it will follow the path you’ve laid out. Each arrow will propel the ball using its momentum and factoring in gravity. You are scored from one to three stars based on the distance of your path to the goal.

There is a lot of trial and error involved, and failing to reach Cat B does not effect your score. The levels become more complex by adding multiple arrows of varying directions, sometimes with extra arrows...

The game may not be out until March, but here's a spooky trailer to darken your Halloween weekend.