God save the Wii

Yes, that's right! I, too, am partaking in this rather exhilerating bandwagon of 'oh my god', despite it being some quite-a-few days late: The Queen plays the Nintendo Wii, and enjoys it.

I'll just give you a moment to absorb that information if it's new to you (somehow).

Right, so. It stemmed from this article and has escalated into fanboys gleefully tossing eachother off in anticipation, but Her Royal Majesty played the Nintendo Wii when Prince William brought it round to Sandringham House in Norfolk, and became an instant success and addict at 10-pin bowling. I mean this is just heartwarming stuff isn't it?

However, there's just one thing I need to say before I can continue;
"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has found herself a new hobby--playing with Prince William's Wii."
NO.

And on we go. So, well.. all the core details have been covered in the article, but... what does this mean for the gaming community? Soon she'll be reflecting Bowser's projectiles in a feiry showdown of interstellar Pong in Super Mario Galaxy to save a Princess who fails to put out each and every time she's rescued, then she'll start one-shotting goblins or whatever-the-heck the enemies are in Twilight Princess (I am so uninformed on the Wii's games lineup). Hell, she'll be Katana-slicing Japanese gunmen in Redsteel sooner or later. There shall be no end to her victory.

Even for someone as rigid and emotionally vacant as Her Maj, once you get good at these simple games, you don't stop there. You just don't. The addiction spreads like wildfire. The worrying thing is, however, that as she moves up the ladder of game quality and experiences into the zone of the fantastical (let's hope the mannequin part of 'Condemned' doesn't give the poor girl a stroke), she'll start jumping on the gaming issues bandwagons rolling in from bigger countries about shit like Manhunt and Hitman, and then she'll be shaping the gaming industry in her own image.

Basically I'm trying to establish whether all this is good or bad. Good in the sense that she has a vague - if weak and quivering - grasp on today's technology and modern entertainment and partakes in it herself, but bad in the sense that she is the leader of fucking royalty. These two worlds were not designed to meet! This whole ordeal could be laughably sweet but it could also bring down a bloody calamity on this country. I cannot say any more until there's more info on this issue. We don't have a big enough picture. Expect future blogs as the situation develops.

Tell you one thing though. I bet she spawn-camps like a motherfuck.