[I would like to preface this post by saying that I still love and somewhat regularly play Minecraft. I am simply talking about the coverage of the game] 
  
Not to long ago, someone post on this site about the amount of coverage for Kinect hacks and Minecraft. However, his post basically boiled down to "I don't like theses things so stop talking about them" and he was given the appropriate amount of shit by the community.  
 
Since then, there has been no new developments on the Minecraft front (can't really speak for Kinect, as I don't keep up with it). Notch posted some screenshots of old unfinished projects that he worked on in the past and a youtube video of wolves which will be added at an undisclosed later date, but that's it. 
 
And yet at least two major gaming sites (Joystiq and The Escapist), have posted  front-page articles on both stories, as well as covering Pert  Molyneux saying nice things about it.  
 
I understand that Minecraft has become an indie darling and that Notch's rags to riches story is a feel good piece that gives people hope for the future of games, but at what point does covering the thing just become re-blogging the man's Tumblr? Unless there's been a major update, or Notch has made a major announcement regarding it, I don't thing the general gaming populace really needs to know every single little detail about it's progress. At best it's just pandering and at worst it's just a cheap grab for page views. 

This is the first I've heard of this.

To be fair, joystiq and escapist (and I'm going to add kotaku to this list of offenders) phish for page views to increase their revenue streams. They know lots of people will google minecraft on any given day and having the most recent news articles about it is going to raise their page views. It doesn't matter how shitty their content is as long as it's recent. The quicker and more frequent their content is the more profitable they become (since the escapist's video series are all once a week then those have a consistent quality above that of their writing). That is why people should ignore low quality sites like them and consume their media from sites that produce quality content that isn't rushed like the whiskey sites and EGMi. Personally if someone has a link to any gawker media site I won't bother clicking it and if I accidentally click one that has been shortened by something like bitly then I'll close the window because I know it'll be a waste of time. 
 
The latest kinect hack has it working with a modded PS3 but the functionality is very limited so far.

Kind of what  @mosespippy said, but at the same time, it's the current fad. It isn't going away. It's a crazy wonderful thing, Minecraft, and personally I am happy for all the attention it's getting. Better than people speculating over when Call of Duty will finally go future or how much the console versions of BF3 will be.

Rock Paper Shotgun posts about minecraft every single fucking day, so whatever.

Does that motherfucker even update anymore except "lol i had a taco"?

Oh I don't know. I was quite thrilled when I found a mod that allowed me to build a small plane and fly around in a world I've previously been forced to walk around in.
 
Don't really care what is written about Minecraft. I stick to watching the Yogscast muck about. It's amusing enough.

I've never visited Joystiq and I learned that I hated the Escapist very very quickly, I couldn't care less about what they write. You are right, most video game media is just reblogging developers and most of the time I just get it fresh from the source. It's why I don't read many news articles about games.

Erm, a ton of games get loads of coverage leading up to their release. This one just has the added benefit of having such a large beta.

" Erm, a ton of games get loads of coverage leading up to their release. This one just has the added benefit of having such a large beta. "