Remembering Kotaku AU - Seamus Byrne, Mark Serrels, Alex Walker, David Smith | grokludo 4

Kotaku AU has closed. To me and many others, it held a special place in Australia's gaming history. So this is part memorial, part group therapy session, part insider discussion for everyone else's understanding, in which I've gathered former editors of the site to talk about its beginning, middle, and end.

Mark Serrels and Alex Walker had the longest tenures as editor of Kotaku AU, and David Smith was editor during its final years. Seamus Byrne started as editor of Gizmodo, and later became publisher of Allure's tech suite.

The baseball has never been more inside – but through that kind of insider discussion, hopefully there's an increased understanding of what made Kotaku AU special, and the current environment of dying games media. (And dying media in general)

Thank you to all of you supporting grokludo, I hope you enjoy!

Expect the next episode very soon, where we'll be talking to Belgian academic Maarten Denoo about the tit-for-tat battle between games publishers and loot box regulators in Europe.