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[John Kowalski]

itt: what is journalism

 

[SgtCobra]

Given that you didn't even read the article before writing this, feel free to apologize for calling me "repulsive" whenever you'd like. If you do read the article, you can learn how to do it securely and anonymously.

this is awful. i'd much prefer the spoon fed info from the publishers i worship

Eh no, I want the juicy behind the scenes stuff, some practises need to be revealed.

 

[Burt]

Ha, I wouldn't want to be the person that's gonna have to sort through all the impending GamerGate-esque "leaks" of flow charts and web diagrams and 4chan posts and sourceless, out of context emails that nutjobs are gonna send in.

 

[Marcel]

itt: what is journalism

ethics and shit. you just gotta put your hat that says "news" on it and hit the pavement for the big scoop

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Uncovering Studio politics, health of certain productions, and industry practices? Yes. All for it.

Leaking confidential games and info early, no.


I hope Kotaku is contacted by whomever is left at Big Red Button games.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I don't really see the problem here.

 

[Marcel]

Leaking confidential games and info early, no.

I doubt they would turn away from it if it meant getting scooped by someone else. You're just letting someone else eat your lunch for little to no benefit.

 

[n0razi]

anyone who trusts kotaku/kinja in a morom


their main priority is clicks/$, morals be damned


good for them if this works though

 

[Vince DiCola]

bungie dev needs to leak the final year of destiny

Seconded, I am desperate to know what happened in that last year

 

[jschreier]

It's worth noting, as explained in the article itself (read it!), the point of this guide is not to get people to leak us unannounced games. We're way more interested in reporting real stories about, say, Crytek not paying its staff, or how LucasArts fell apart, or what really happened behind the scenes of Destiny. That's why we want to provide people with tips on contacting us securely and anonymously.

Gonna bump this since apparently a lot of people have trouble actually reading articles before insulting us about them.

 

[CambriaRising]

Given that you didn't even read the article before writing this, feel free to apologize for calling me "repulsive" whenever you'd like. If you do read the article, you can learn how to do it securely and anonymously.

You might take offense to this (please don't), but this post might be my favorite thing you've ever written.

Anyway, this is a good thing. Who cares about unannounced games, I want to read the interesting stories about cancellations, work environments, and truly scummy behavior. Kotaku has been providing that for a while now and if this helps hem bring more of that stuff out, that's amazing.

 

[dex3108]

It's worth noting, as explained in the article itself (read it!), the point of this guide is not to get people to leak us unannounced games. We're way more interested in reporting real stories about, say, Crytek not paying its staff, or how LucasArts fell apart, or what really happened behind the scenes of Destiny. That's why we want to provide people with tips on contacting us securely and anonymously.

If somebody wants to leak something to you your email is right there on Kotaku page. If they want more info how to send you assets they can ask you via personal email. Why did you have need to write this article then?

Just to be clear i really enjoy reading your article about game industry stuff and this is not rant or angry conversation.

 

[Marcel]

anyone who trusts kotaku/kinja in a morom


their main priority is clicks/$, morals be damned

it's about morals in kinja

 

[nbnt]

Ok, someone, for the love of everything that is holy, leak something about TLG. Anything, please. ╥﹏╥

 

[antibolo]

People who are offended by this have a pretty naive understanding of how journalism works.

 

[CosmicQueso]

Ok, someone, for the love of everything that is holy, leak something about TLG. Anything, please. ╥﹏╥

it'sf&ckingnothing.gif

 

[Marcel]

People who are offended by this have a pretty naive understanding of how journalism works.

There's a whole movement of naive people out there somewhere. What were they called again? Garry Gergich? Something like that.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Ok, someone, for the love of everything that is holy, leak something about TLG. Anything, please. ╥﹏╥

How does a grounded boat leak

 

[ComputerMKII]

Does anyone know what happened to CBOAT?

 

[John Harker]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgoldman/2014/09/16/congress-is-considering-a-new-federal-trade-secret-law-why/

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Ok, someone, for the love of everything that is holy, leak something about TLG. Anything, please. ╥﹏╥

ueda spends a lot of time in the break room asking if anybody on the knack 2 team has spare time to model some trees

 

[Gentleman Jack]

morom

haha

Does anyone know what happened to CBOAT?

Misinformation in November's NPD thread.

 

[nullpoynter]

What if I send dick pics anonymously

I guess it depends on how big the tip is...

 

[Chuck]

Kotaku was on top of the world-changing Xbox Pure leak.

it's worth posting the butt hurt

It appears that this rumor story could be CAG throwing their credibility out the window as part of a contest. Kotaku''s decision to run rumors is always based on the credibility of the site and the information contained within it. In the past CAG has proven to be a reliable site, having broken a number of stories through apt reporting. It appears that may no longer be the case.

 

[Hot Coldman]

ueda spends a lot of time in the break room asking if anybody on the knack 2 team has spare time to model some trees

"Should... should we tell him about SpeedTree?"
"Just don't make eye contact."

 

[jschreier]

If somebody want's to leak something to you your email is right there on Kotaku page. If they want more info how to send you assets they can ask you via personal email. Why did you have need to write this article then?

Just to be clear i really enjoy reading your article about game industry stuff and this is not rant or angry conversation.

Because it's important for us to give potential tipsters and whistleblowers as much information as possible about how to protect themselves, ranging from basic (don't use company WiFi!) to advanced (using TOR and PGP encryption). People need to know that they can and should come to us when they experience malfeasance or wrongdoing of some sort.

 

[Kalor]

I don't see why some people have a problem with this. Stories about studio politics or why a certain game fell apart are always interesting so I'll be curious to see if we'll see much as a result of this post.

 

[ReBurn]

Do I get a cut of the page click ad revenue?

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Kotaku was at least the only news site on the internet to accept Harada was joking about banning Lucky Chloe in America.

Every other site wanted to run with it as real.

 

[flkraven]

anyone who trusts kotaku/kinja in a morom


their main priority is clicks/$, morals be damned


good for them if this works though

I'm thoroughly interested. What are some examples of Kotaku's immoral lust for profit?

I don't deny that Kotaku cares about 'clicks'. All sites do. If you don't get the clicks, you don't get paid. If you don't get paid, you can continue doing the work. You get the clicks by writing things that people find interesting. Nothing I've read leads me to question their morality.

 

[GillianSeed79]

This is a good thing, considering publishers pretty much have total control over messaging. I just hope the writers at Kotaku are careful, especially when it comes to liability/legal concerns regarding publishing stuff from anonymous sources. It can be hard to corroborate stories from anonymous sources sometimes, and sometimes their information turns out to be bogus.

 

[ReBurn]

Misinformation in November's NPD thread.

That was funny because it was so vague that it could have meant anything and so many people built whole narratives around it. It seemed more like trolling than misinformation.

 

[Astrates]

I was convinced that was a gif. I legitimately couldn't look away. Kevin Spacey probably could be president with that stare

 

[Taruranto]

My uncle works at Atlus and he said they are going to release Half-Life 3 on PS3 at 30 FPS.

 

[True Samurai]

Given that you didn't even read the article before writing this, feel free to apologize for calling me "repulsive" whenever you'd like. If you do read the article, you can learn how to do it securely and anonymously.

Edit: I was beaten by the second lol

 

[Messofanego]

Photos, Documents, Videos

If the story you'd like to share with us would be improved by photos or documentation, here are some extra potential security measures for sending out visual materials:

Taking pictures of photos or documents with your phone and sending those photos is always more secure than digitally transferring the files themselves.
If you do take pictures of a photo or document you want to send our way, try to get multiple angles so you can send us as many versions as possible.
When sending photos via e-mail or Dropbox, remove the metadata first. We do our own metadata scrubbing before we post leaked photos on Kotaku, but it's best to be as safe as possible.

For Extra Security

There are several extra steps you can take if you want to leak ultra-sensitive information to Kotaku in the most secure way possible.

Use the TOR browser, an open-source program that allows you to use the internet on a proxy IP address.
For extra security, you can encrypt e-mails using a tool called PGP. The easiest way to do this is to install a browser extension called Mailvelope that can enable your webmail—like, say, Gmail—to encrypt and decrypt e-mails. Mailvelope will also give you a full walkthrough on how to do this.
You can send me an encrypted e-mail by e-mailing jason@kotaku.com with my public PGP key, which you can find right here.

This is totally new and interesting stuff.

 

[sploatee]

How dare this website attempt to get traffic

It's like all they care about is readership and page views on stories that might be of interest to people while also protecting their sources

I love your post.

I agree. It's outrageous. OUTRAGEOUS!

 

[Bobs Big Boy]

This is a good way to get a conversation going that would never happen without this.

 

[Corgi]

its a good psa.

its surprising how many people in tech industry have no clue how security works.


Had a former coworker with folders of porn on his company computer...

 

[Elandyll]

Disgusting.

I'm all for uncovering bad practices but giving a call for people to get leaks of people's work and what they've been busting their asses for years to make to just have it spoiled for clicks is terrible. Kotaku is repulsive.

What are you talking about?

This is what investigative journalism is about, digging in stories that aren't PR.

Now if it's just about leaking stuff ahead of events or various other things that would hurt your companie's PR/ Marketing plans, if the employee is found out, he would justifyably be fired (hence the anonymity).
But if it's to uncover bad practices, shaddy deals and overall weird stories in the gaming world, I'm all for it.

 

[ShapeGSX]

They post articles like this periodically. I remember seeing one years ago.

 

[antibolo]

There's a whole movement of naive people out there somewhere. What were they called again? Garry Gergich? Something like that.

Indeed.

If the Garry Gergichers had their way, all video game news sites would just be press release aggregates.

 

[Marcel]

its a good psa.

its surprising how many people in tech industry have no clue how security works.


Had a former coworker with folders of porn on his company computer...

That's probably more indicative of the fact that your former coworker was a horny moron rather than saying anything about the tech industry at large.

 

[Nugg]

Of course it's OK. And of course it's for trafic, they're not doing this for charity. But it's okay if this leads to some real interesting content. It's great.

 

[CaptainSlow]

Translation: no one reads our shitty click bait "articles" and posts about gaming cakes after our garbage redesign bullshit that we refuse to fix, so please send us vaguely worded leaks that we can make into even more click bait articles that drive fanboy forum warriors into a tizzy. Thanks!

 

[Sciz]

It's worth noting, as explained in the article itself (read it!), the point of this guide is not to get people to leak us unannounced games. We're way more interested in reporting real stories about, say, Crytek not paying its staff, or how LucasArts fell apart, or what really happened behind the scenes of Destiny.

Still working on that last one, eh?

Godspeed, you press sneak fucks.

 

[Jarmel]

I really want that Destiny article.

 

[Dawg]

#JustPressSneakFuckThings

 

[emb]

Someone should send them NPD numbers every month.

 

[Marcel]

I really want that Destiny article.

If only for how those community thread a...regulars would react.