4 posts and columns on Kotaku

Gawker Gets Into the TV Business — The Japanese Cult Hit Game Show TV Business

in Media on June 15, 2011 at 2:16 pm PT

Nick Denton says he wants his blog empire to be more than a blog empire — he wants it to be like TV. So here’s the next logical step: He’s going to start running a TV show on one of his blogs.
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Almost Famous: Keith Lee of Booyah Games

in News on February 8, 2010 at 1:07 am PT

This week, we took a short walk down University Avenue in Silicon Valley with Keith Lee, co-founder and CEO of Booyah Games. We talked about his time as lead developer for Blizzard, his total lack of common sense, and how he’s trying to make the whole social game world “level up.” Don’t worry–we made him translate most of the gamer lingo.

GameStop: Lending Games to Staff, Selling Them as New

in News on April 13, 2009 at 10:48 am PT

GameStop is lending new copies of videogames to their retail store employees and later selling them as new, unused copies, the gamer blog Kotaku asserts. The post contends the practice may be a violation of federal trade laws.

Gawker Media’s Nick Denton: Anyone Want to Buy a Blog?

in Media on November 12, 2008 at 3:49 pm PT

The Gawker Media boss puts his Consumerist site up for sale and folds his Valleywag tech gossip site into his flagship Gawker gossip site. More moves to come. In fact, it wouldn’t be Denton if there were not more moves to come.