Kotaku

1 week ago - Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Notable former contributors to the site include Luke Smith, Cecilia D'Anastasio, Tim Rogers, and Jason Schreier. On July 2, 2025, it was announced that Keleops Group had completed ...

March 21, 2024 - I too noted a drop in article quality since he passed away. Continue this thread ... Well the edgy era got Gawker sued into bankruptcy, which prompted change by the new owner. ... Nothing Kotaku did ever got it sued.

January 15, 2025 - Ten years later I landed a job at the video game and culture website Kotaku Australia and its sister sites, Lifehacker and Gizmodo. Those brands kickstarted my career. Now those brands are no more. On Monday Nine’s Pedestrian Group, which licensed the trio of titles from US owners, announced it would be shuttering all three, in addition to Vice and Refinery29.

July 2, 2025 - With the sale of Kotaku, a video game site, to the European publisher Keleops, all but one website remains at G/O Media, which is shutting down.

July 11, 2025 - Today is my last day at Kotaku. Tomorrow, a new journey begins. Though I can’t talk about where I’m headed yet, if you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know soon. I’m staying in journalism, building on my work over the past decade, but my byline will appear elsewhere.

October 27, 2025 - Anyway, you've read the headline ... Pedestrian Group, part of the even more embattled Nine Network--shut down the sites and laid everyone off....

October 22, 2023 - To think all this happened because their parent company Gawker decides to out a Billionaire and then report on Hulk Hogan's sex tape. I hate that all the affiliate blogs got caught in the crossfire, but with the way Gawker conducted themselves they absolutely had the lawsuit coming. ... Don't read or like Kotaku anymore after it lost Schrier and a few other good writers, but I dread the day it shuts down because a certain part of the internet will take it as a win regardless of the circumstances and be absolutely insufferable.

March 23, 2024 - A lot of former Kotaku editors (the names you likely associate with the site) formed a new company last year called Aftermath and have written up some thoughts on things. It's one thing to kill a brand, that has been happening left and right ...

March 22, 2024 - You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. ... Kotaku EIC Jen Glennon resigned Thursday, citing a deprioritzation of news in favor of guides content at the G/O Media-owned gaming site.

July 31, 2025 - It’s 2023, and Kotaku has a new look. Those of you who regularly read our homepage are probably noticing all sorts of changes, from the layout to the colors and even how pictures are framed on the page.

June 4, 2024 - Click to shrink... This was a licensing deal, so it wasn't that Kotaku had an Australian website; it was that an Australian website had access to the Kotaku brand and content. Because of that, folding everyone into the parent brand isn't really on the table, as that'd be a huge influx of brand new hires.

March 7, 2024 - Kotaku has fired back with an article over the Sweet Baby Inc flare-up, but nobody cares because they're irrelevant now.

August 15, 2023 - I recall when she first got the spot as EIC, her first post promised bringing journalistic integrity to Kotaku and putting out actual stories that mattered. I don't think any of that ever happened. It just continued to be click bait articles with no substance.

July 9, 2023 - This is the same thing that drove me nuts about "gamergate". It's like talking about how bad it is that the paint is peeling while the whole house is on fire · I'll admit I do miss the older generation of video game 'journalism' nonetheless. Had its problems, but the thing is, it did feel ...

July 11, 2025 - After eight years and some change, I am leaving Kotaku. Friday will be my last day working for this website. I will miss you all. Truth is, I’ve decided to leave the media and pursue my life’s calling: becoming a full-time saxophone player.

March 21, 2024 - Jen Glennon, who took over as editor in chief of Kotaku in October, resigned Thursday. In a resignation letter seen by Aftermath, Glennon says that she made this choice due to the management team’s recent decision to deprioritize news in favor ...