"At These Web Sites, It's a Man's World". In 2015, Kotaku claimed that they had been blacklisted by major video game companies Bethesda Softworks and Ubisoft. In 2007, Kotaku ran a story about rumored upcoming features on the PlayStation 3, and Sony responded by temporarily blacklisting the website. In 2010, Kotaku criticized Japanese magazine Famitsu's glowing endorsement of a Konami game as a conflict of interest Konami subsequently revoked Kotaku 's invitation to the game's launch party. In 2009, Business Insider reported that Hearst Corporation sought to buy Kotaku from Gawker Media. In 2007, attorney Jack Thompson sued Gawker Media and site editor Brian Crecente over concerns that Kotaku declined to remove threatening user comments, but the lawsuit was dismissed the next day.
Riley MacLeod served as interim editor in chief following Totilo's departure, before Patricia Hernandez commenced her tenure as editor in chief from June 2, 2021. Totilo announced he was departing as editor in chief on February 5, 2021, though will remain in games journalism elsewhere. In May 2020, senior writer Harper Jay MacIntyre departed from Kotaku, similarly citing conflicts with management, and joined Double Fine Productions as their content and community manager. Schreier subsequently took a position at Bloomberg News. Jason Schreier, one of Kotaku 's writers since 2012 known for his investigative in-depth coverage of working conditions at various studios and development histories for various video games, announced his departure from the site on April 16, 2020, citing the issues surrounding G/O Media which filtered into disruptions at their sister website Deadspin around October 2019. Joshua Rivera and Gita Jackson left in January 2020 stating it was impossible to work with the new management.
Cecilia D'Anastasio left Kotaku in December 2019 to become a journalist for Wired. 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 G/O Media's management. and as of March 2022 continues to own it. In December 2018 Pedestrian Group, owned by the Australian media company Nine Entertainment, acquired Kotaku Australia. The Gizmodo Media Group was later acquired by the private equity firm Great Hill Partners in April 2019, and renamed G/O Media. Kotaku was one of several websites that was purchased by Univision Communications in their acquisition of Gawker Media in August 2016 Gizmodo Media Group was subsequently founded to house the Gawker acquisitions, operating under the Fusion Media Group, a division of Univision. In April 2014, Gawker Media partnered with Future plc to launch Kotaku UK, and with Allure Media to launch Kotaku Australia. Totilo had previously joined Kotaku in 2009 as deputy editor. Stephen Totilo replaced Brian Crecente as the editor in chief in 2012. Its name comes from the Japanese otaku (obsessive fan) and the prefix "ko-" (small in size).
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The site has made CNET's "Blog 100" list and was ranked 50th on PC Magazine 's "Top 100 Classic Web Sites" list. Crecente was named one of the 20 most influential people in the video game industry over the past 20 years by GamePro in 2009 and one of gaming's Top 50 journalists by Edge in 2006. Since then, the site has launched several country-specific sites for Australia, Japan, Brazil and the UK. About a month later, Brian Crecente was brought in to try to save the failing site. Kotaku was first launched in October 2004 with Matthew Gallant as its lead writer, with an intended target audience of young men.
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