Former Kotaku writers are launching a new video game site — and they own it this time

They’ve started Aftermath, a new website about video games and culture.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Four ex-Kotaku staffers are launching a new subscriber-based video games and culture publication: Aftermath. The website, which is now live, will be co-owned by Nathan Grayson, Gita Jackson, Riley MacLeod, and Luke Plunkett — all Kotaku mainstays who helped shape its incisive voice before leaving the site for one reason or another.

“[Aftermath is] about the internet and everything that comes after,” Jackson says in a recent interview I had with all four founders. Jackson

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