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Tepid adventure-em-up Fable III has debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, as the Brits support a homegrown developer (or were just suckered in by the amazingly dishonest TV commercial). Fallout: New Vegas has been shunted from first to third place, as FIFA 11 takes the second spot. 

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II debuts at number five and Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 at seven. Those are some of the EXCITING things that happened!

The full chart's below:

1. Fable III
2. FIFA 11
3. Fallout: New Vegas
4. Just Dance 2
5. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
6. Medal of Honor
7. WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011
8. Professor Layton and the Lost Future
9. The Sims 3
10. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
11. Wii Party
12. Wii Sports Resort
13. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
14. F1: 2010
15. The Sims 3: Late Night
16. Forza Motorsport 3
17. Red Dead Redemption
18. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
19. Halo: Reach
20. Wii Fit Plus

Have some spare time this Monday morning and not quite finished celebrating Halloween? The Organ Trail is a manner in which you can pass said spare time. It's a re-imagining of The Oregon Trail, set in modern times amidst a zombie apocalypse. Travel the US in your station wagon, keeping a group of survivors alive while managing food, trading supplies and more.

This initial release doesn't implement some features the designers have planned either, such as game saves. It's also a bit on the slow-paced side. But it's still a fun little diversion. I managed to make it through relatively unscathed, with only one survivor fleeing madly into the night.

Give it a shot and tell us what you think in the comments.

The Organ Trail [The Men Who Wear Many Hats via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

Military advisor Hank Keirsey is a man I’m liking more and more every day. Not only did he come out in defense of Medal of Honor, the man who is currently working with Treyarch on Call of Duty” Black Ops has come out to jokingly criticize “12-year-old bastards” on Xbox Live, with hilarious results. 

“When I played the original Call of Duty, after being a soldier, I screwed up a couple things,” admits the military man. “I know to check corners and when someone jumps out I was kicking myself. It was sufficient and realistic enough that it gave me the damn willies. I was waking up in the middle of the night thinking I could do much better.

“Then you’re pissed off in multiplayer when some 12-year-old is kicking your ass. You think: ‘I do this for a living you little bastard.’ I’m going to crawl down your basement hatch and I’ll find you, you little …”

Unfortunately for the homophobic dullards of Xbox Live, Keirsey doesn’t stop there: “I know where you live you little bastard. Use all the expletives you want; when I show up you’re going to have a big bar of soap in your mouth and boot up your ass. You little bastard.”

Hank Keirsey, ladies and gentlemen. A true American hero. 

Xbox Live’s ‘little b*stards’ get rude awakening [CVG]

Deadly Premonition creator Swery65 didn’t know that his own game was finally getting the European release it deserved. The Japanese developer only found out this morning from European fans, who congratulated him on Twitter — much to his surprise. 

“Wow! Is it true? Please give me a time … I have to check it out myself. I can’t still say,” says Swery. “Let me check. So happy. But I can’t still say.”

Either he didn’t know it’s happening or he doesn’t know that he’s allowed to say it’s happening, but it’s funny to think that the coffee loving game maker managed to miss all the press releases and stories on it. Nevertheless, a big congratulations to a genuinely lovely developer. Deadly Premonition definitely deserves the glad tidings. 

[Via Swery's Twitter]

Back on April Fools’ Day there was a fake product post by ThinkGeek for a thing called iCade. This was an arcade cabinet for your iPad: you’d simply slide in your tablet and go to town with the joystick and buttons in this minicab. But, again, it wasn’t real.

Now it is real. The Freekade arcade cabinet now has walnut sides, a black matte finish and real controls that interface with your iPad via Bluetooth. It is currently compatible with ines, isnes, snes4iphone and PSX4ALL, you jailbreakers.

The rig is currently up for auction on eBay, standing now at £122 with 18 bids and 8 days left.

Freekade, the iPad arcade cabinet, goes up for auction [engadget]

Namco Bandai has unleashed a new cinematic trailer for upcoming hack n’ slash romp Knights Contract. I have no idea when this publisher decided it would do loads of cool games, but I’m not complaining. Knights Contract looks exactly like my kind of thing, so I say bring it on. 

The trailer features really ugly monsters getting cut up by a guy whose sword is also a scythe. There’s also a woman with magical powers who is helping him out. It’s what every videogame needs. Check it out and see if the game, which is launching next year, tickles your fancy. 

Do you remain skeptical of THQ’s uDraw tablet for the Wii? Check out the above video and see what a pro can do with the tool. Award-winning painter David Kassan can be seen pumping out a very impressive portrait using uDraw.

This is all well and good and I’m glad that the tools can produce such results but, really, who is going to use the uDraw for this? I think the capabilities of the tool are beyond what the consumer would need and inappropriate as a product for those who would actually use the features. 

Frankly, the only thing that seems to have even a shot at commercial success as a dedicated-peripheral game using this device is Pictionary. I’m sure people would buy that by the boatload but I don’t know that I would buy a separate peripheral for seventy dollars and then buy the game on top of that.

N.O.V.A is considered one of the top-tier iPhone games. Gameloft’s first-person-shooter not only nailed the controls, it provided a genuine console experience and some pretty impressive graphics. Now PSP and PS3 fans can play it, as Gameloft is porting it over to PlayStation Minis. 

Seems like it’ll be a straightforward port with no extra content, so those who already own it on the iPhone probably don’t need to worry about it. The rest of you, however, would do well to check it out. It’s a pretty solid, if derivative, shooter. 

Gameloft’s N.O.V.A Coming To Minis [GamerBytes]

You could hardly be blamed for not looking at all of these screenshots for Time Crisis: Razing Storm, but you may want to browse through them anyway. In addition to a clump of character models, there are a considerable quantity of images from the game’s multiplayer mode, including a level set in a prison.

I played Time Crisis a bit in the arcades whenever I had more money than sense, but I never bothered to take the title home with me. I’ve always been a House of the Dead fan and the Time Crisis series just never hooked me. Are you a fan? What compels you to play these?