Jared Rea

Conducted my first one-on-one interview with Shigeru Miyamoto this past week. Pretty ballin’.

Upon entering his hotel room, we were greeted by the man himself, slapping down a rhythm on his Wii-remote-turned-bass-guitar to a K.K. Slider favorite. Sitting down for our interview, our first question related not only to Wii Music, but also to his greatest measure of success as the king of casual gaming.

How is the wife-o-meter doing these days?

The questions were mostly of the family oriented variety as I was more or less a surrogate for GameDaily’s new parental site, PlaySavvy. Still, it was great to sit down with Miyamoto and chat about games.

On a different note, a few people have asked me about my hiatus from my blogging here. My slacking off is actually a very good sign. It means that I’m quite busy these days, so expect some very positive news very soon. I’ll try and sneak something else on here in the meantime.

Time spent watching gameplay from Star Wars: The Old Republic: 60 seconds.

Time spent locked inside Lucasarts with Bioware employees to discuss said 60 seconds: 3 hours.

Answers received: Not a whole lot.

When Star Wars Galaxies is eventually laid to rest, it will be remembered for one thing: dancing. You could spend your entire in-game life just dancing the night away, styling wookie hair or creating blue milk for all your friends. You could live the dream of a moisture farmer! Of course, Bioware wasn’t saying anything beyond, “this MMO has a lot of content.” Now you know why we decided to write this feature.

I’m looking forward to seeing what Bioware turns out, of course, but to be honest with you I’m not all that excited. If you remove the Star Wars characters from the screenshots and told someone it was from a new World of Warcraft expansion, they’d probably believe you. Jokes on the visual aside, they have a lot of fascinating ideas.