Kotaku Australia
Kotaku Australia will be shut down as a part of a major cost cutting effort for its parent company, Pedestrian Group. Kotaku was first launched in October 2004 with Matthew Gallant as its lead writer, with an intended target audience of young men. [3][4] About a month later, Brian Crecente was brought in to try to save the failing site.
[5] Since then, the site has launched several country-specific sites for Australia, Japan, Brazil and the UK. Crecente was named one of the 20 most influential people in the. Kotaku Australia was a place for deep dives, local games coverage, untold tales, and a whole lot of shitposting, and now it's gone - the site likely to go down soon, not even allowing those of us who put our blood, sweat and tears into it to have a digital mausoleum to look back on what we achieved.
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The long-term effects of these Australian closures on Kotaku and its parent company, G/O Media, remain to be seen The future looks uncertain for many involved in the current iteration of games journalism. Pedestrian Group, the licence holder of Kotaku Australia, has decided to close the site and others as part of a restructuring. Dozens of staff are laid off and the managing editor of Kotaku Australia announces the end of the site on social media.
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Kotaku Australia is being shut down by publisher Pedestrian Group so the company can focus on its own brands. The Guardian broke the news after obtaining an email sent from Pedestrian Group CEO, Matt Rowley, to a number of employees across the company. Pedestrian Group currently licenses the Kotaku brand and others including Gizmodo, Vice, Refinery29 and Lifehacker (which are also being axed.
Kotaku Australia is just one Pedestrian Group outlet that's been shut down yesterday in a restructure lead by parent group Nine. Australia is losing a bunch of gaming websites, to the cries of probably no one. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Pedestrian Group, an Australian "third-party publisher," is "exiting its licensing deals to publish third-party brands," which include a number of video game websites: Kotaku, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, and Refinery29.
