A downturn in advertising led to the “excruciating” decision, its owner said.

  • FartsWithAnAccent
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    1511 months ago

    I didn’t even know it was still around. I thought all those websites shut down years ago, apparently not though: Kotaku still seems to be around.

    • @psmgx
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      1311 months ago

      I assumed the Hulk Hogan / Peter Thiel lawsuit killed em all, but guess they held on

      • @[email protected]
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        1811 months ago

        It killed Gawker, their parent company

        They were bought by someone else in 2019, but couldn’t recover

    • st3ph3n
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      611 months ago

      Several Kotaku writers quit and launched their own operation recently, named Aftermath.

      • @john_fla
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        711 months ago

        And the Deadspin folks have Defector, while Jalopnik writers have The Autopian. All worthy of your clicks and dollars.

        • @edgemaster72
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          111 months ago

          Oooh, I didn’t know about The Autopian. TIL