Kotaku

2 weeks 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 ...

I know nothing really about this and just happened across this article, but the statement "Kotaku was first launched in October 2004 with Matthew Gallant as its lead writer, with an intended target audience of young men. About a month later, Brian Crecente was brought in to try to save the failing site" doesn't seem to fit with the infobox saying it was "created by Brian Crecente"; furthermore, Crecente's article states he was the "founder" of Kotaku.

November 27, 2023 - One of the admin states how the linked smaller sites are not verifable by their standards WP:VS/S, and on a latter post regarding Kotaku he bring up how Kotakus is publisher and editorialized. Yes mdf but they base their article of off the same tweets the other (non verifable) sites do..the difference being they inclued also the part how Kabrutus was harrased. I might have to pull my account to join in this mess ... Can't we be citing the direct quotes from leadership in interviews about the goal to "take over" the industry ... Nope, direct sources are banned on wikipedia.

March 21, 2024 - Most games journalists view the job as a stepping stone to more “real” journalism because they are embarrassed to be associated with video games ... I think thats called wikipedia or twitter nowadays. Continue this thread ... Kotaku used to be my favorite.

3 weeks ago - As a result of the Bollea v. Gawker lawsuit, the Gawker Network including Kotaku underwent a series of ownership changes after 2016, eventually falling under the G/O Media family in 2019.

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3 weeks ago - The launch was troubled due to server issues. Kotaku.com and io9.com failed to load, displaying links, but no main content, and opening different posts in different tabs did not work, either.

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July 28, 2024 - Whether this is a sustainable system as the websites are being deprived of clicks remains to be seen. ... Senior Reporter for Kotaku, Ethan Gach reporting that Undead Labs are facing layoffs, but unsure of how widespread

2 weeks ago - Kotaku was sold to Keleops in July 2025. This sale left G/O Media with only one outlet, The Root.

September 24, 2025 - Kotaku is the main setting throughout the series. After the events caused by a certain group of humans, the Tao of the island was destroyed and was left on the verge of dying. ... A thousand years ago, Jofuku made landfall on the island after ...

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July 2, 2025 - G/O Media, which is owned by the ... and The Onion. But it has slowly been shedding its holdings. With the sale of Kotaku, only one website remains: The Root, which covers Black culture and news....

April 1, 2024 - Apart from a departure tweet, Glennon has remained publicly silent, including to Digiday. Nonetheless, passionate Kotaku readers have voiced their discontent. Following the announcement, they flooded articles with comments complaining about the reported shift to guides.

In December 2018 Pedestrian Group, owned by the Australian media company Nine Entertainment, acquired Kotaku Australia.[17][18][19] The transition to G/O Media led to several departures from the site, as well as from other sister sites under the former Gawker Media label due to conflicts with ...

November 12, 2025 - These included the shutdowns of Waypoint (part of Vice Media) and Launcher (part of The Washington Post), and layoffs of several workers for Inverse, GameSpot, Destructoid, The Escapist, and others. In November 2023, several former writers of these sites, namely Nathan Grayson, Gita Jackson, Riley MacLeod, and Luke Plunkett, created Aftermath. All of the founders were former writers for Kotaku.