Kotaku

Kotaku

Kotaku, the Gamer's Guide as of March 15, 2011
URL	kotaku.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Gaming blog
Owner	Gawker Media
Created by	Brian Crecente

Kotaku is a video games-focused blog. It is part of Gawker Media's "Gawker" network of sites, which also includes Gizmodo, Deadspin, Lifehacker, io9 and Jezebel. Named to CNET News' Blog 100, Kotaku is consistently listed in the top 40 of Technorati's Top 100. The site is currently headed by Stephen Totilo; other editors include Brian Ashcraft, Luke Plunkett and Michael Fahey, Owen Good. Graduates of the site include Bungie Studios' Luke Smith, IGN.com's Jim Reilly, FastCompany.com's Adam Barenblat, Wired.com's John Brownlee (writing as Florian Eckhardt), Eliza Gauger and Vox Games' Brian Crecente.

In August 2007, Allure Media launched Kotaku Australia. The site makes use of licensed content from Gawker Media in combination with original stories produced locally. On July 30, 2009, Kotaku Japan was launched by mediagene INC. The site will contain content from Gawker Media translated into Japanese, as well as Japanese-related gaming news. In November 2010 a Brazilian version of Kotaku, Kotaku Brasil (with translated and original content) was launched.

Editors

• Stephen Totilo – Editor-In-Chief
• Brian Ashcraft – Senior Contributing Editor
• Luke Plunkett – Contributing Editor, Oceania
• Michael Fahey – Reporter, East Coast
• Owen Good – Reporter, Weekends
• Kirk Hamilton - Reporter, West Coast
• Evan Narcisse - Reporter, East Coast
• Contributing Columnists: Leigh Alexander, Lisa Foiles, Tim Rogers, Michael Epstein

External links

• Kotaku home page
• Kotaku Australia
• Kotaku Japan
• Kotaku Brazil
• Official Kotaku Australia YouTube channel