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He received 2 negative tweets total, both from the same person, both of which accused him of lying over a false tweet.

When Wolfenstein: Youngblood was released to negative reception, Kotaku claimed a Wolfenstein developer was harassed on Twitter over microtransactions and forced to private his account.

There's another time when Kotaku published a fake story of a group of transgender women being blocked out from an online gaming tournament and when this was revealed to be fake, they had to apologize for this story.

Bethesda was so concerned about protecting the information of Fallout 76 that they gave Kotaku false information and, because of Bethesda being against corrupt journalism, they made Kotaku look like idiots online.

It's also known to start rumors and spread false information, which explains why companies like Bethesda Softworks, Sony, and Ubisoft have blacklisted it.

The site disables comments for some of its articles.

For that, he ranked it #7 out of the 9 best Mario Kart games. This guy does not realize that there was practically no improvements over Wii and he does not realize that Mario Kart 7 and 8 use motion controls as well.

Luke Plunkett is also infamous for his review of Mario Kart Wii, where he said there was little reason to play the game after the "improvements" made by Mario Kart 7 and 8, and that the motion controls were "straight garbage".

Maddy Myers, one of the most notable writers, blamed Street Fighter for keeping her sexuality in the closet.

#KOTAKU IN ACTIO UPDATE#

He was even insulted by Hideki Kamiya from Platinum Games for an article they wrote on him and other Japanese developers on PC gaming, to the point they had to update their article and apologize for misinformation and misrepresenting him and his fellow Japanese developers. Luke Plunkett criticized detractors of the Call of Duty series by calling them "idiots", "obnoxious elitists", and "assholes" while his site was running an extensive Call of Duty advertisement campaign.Former senior writer Patricia Hernandez wrote about her roommate, Anna Antrophy, six times without giving disclosure until much later.Kate Gray, due to her far-left feminist views, hid an entire section of Jordan Peterson books and replaced them with feminist books without the permission of the bookstore.Although it's not completely clear that Quinn entered the affair with him to get positive coverage in the first place, Grayson's act is still dishonest and apparently corrupt.

Nathan Grayson, one of Kotaku's writers, has positively covered Zoë Quinn in three of his articles without disclosing his friendship and eventual affair with them.Akin to other Gawker-owned sites, Kotaku's articles contain tones of inappropriate content, foul language, as well as misinformation.Sometimes, they even put bans on some accounts for no apparent reason. The site is known for having random ban days where they ban people for fun.Former writer Patricia Hernandez is perhaps the worst offender of all, see gallery below.Editor Luke Plunkett was said to have reposted the same article on Project CARS over six times.They have a lot of clickbait articles.

One journalist was so jealous of Aloy's looks in Horizon: Zero Dawn that she wrote an entire article praising her.

Some of their posts have nothing to do with either gaming or nerd-culture: more frequently, one can see random/irrelevant videos, cosplayer galleries, inside jokes, and discussions about the editors' personal lives.

Kotaku is more of a legitimate trolling site under the guise of a gaming news outlet.