Do fat music producers in sweat pants talking about themselves make you want to buy video games?

I’m really tired of mainstream video game media, and if you’re here, and if you read GGG! often, you probably are too. Websites like Joystiq* tend to just copy and paste press releases instead of doing any sort of investigative work or even adding any sort of professional opinion on them.

Take the new Timbaland/Rock Star Games collaboration for example. Before even talking about the game, Joystiq posted this narcisstic mess of a promo video with Timbaland sitting on his couch with his son and their PSP go, playing with Timbaland’s newest music video game/app.



What the fuck is that crap? Not only does this music app/game look like absolute shit, Timbaland is an idiot. A plagiarizing, self-serving idiot.

Is that desireable? Does that promo video convince consumers that they should buy Timbaland’s game?

- Kyle

* I visit Joystiq often for the press-releases, but shouldn’t a supposedly independent video game blog be more than just PR fodder?