Gaming culture monitoring
Use Kotaku endpoints to turn gaming culture monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Track Kotaku’s games news and opinion alongside game tips, reviews, retro coverage, anime-adjacent culture, and entertainment.
Extract Kotaku games, reviews, culture, entertainment, guides, articles, and author data as JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
8
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
8
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Kotaku",
"endpoint": "kotaku-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/kotaku/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Kotaku games, reviews, culture, entertainment, guides, articles, and author data as JSON.
Use Kotaku endpoints to turn gaming culture monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Kotaku endpoints to turn game guide discovery into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Kotaku endpoints to turn review and retro coverage analysis into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Kotaku endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 8 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Kotaku endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
8 request parameters are documented across those Kotaku endpoints, 8 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Kotaku endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Kotaku endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
5 hosted MCP tools back the Kotaku endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/kotaku/article
/kotaku/author
/kotaku/headlines
/kotaku/news
/kotaku/sections
Endpoint catalog
/kotaku/sectionsReturns the Kotaku section inventory: Entertainment (with its Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, and Superhero sub-topics), Reviews, the Culture umbrella's own sub-topics (News, Retro, Kotaku Game Diary, YouTube, Odds and Ends, Feature, Fine Art), Tips & Guides, Games, and Deals, each linking to its public RSS feed. Every slug is accepted by the headlines endpoint.
MCP tool kotaku_sections
/kotaku/newsReturns Kotaku's current top gaming stories, with no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image where Kotaku provides them. Use `kotaku-headlines` for a single section instead.
MCP tool kotaku_news
/kotaku/headlinesReturns recent Kotaku headlines for one section. `section` is required and takes one of 17 slugs such as `news`, `reviews`, `games`, `game-tips`, `retro`, `horror` or `deals`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image.
MCP tool kotaku_headlines
/kotaku/articleReturns public Kotaku article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. Kotaku articles are free to read, so the full body is returned.
MCP tool kotaku_article
/kotaku/authorReturns a Kotaku author profile by `url`, a canonical `https://kotaku.com/author/<slug>` link. The response has the `name`, `biography`, `image_url`, `social_links` (a `type` label and URL) and recent articles. The article `published_at` is the page's own date text, such as `Published September 23, 2026 at 11:20 am`, not a timestamp.
MCP tool kotaku_author
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How to scrape Kotaku
Kotaku describes itself as a news and opinion site for games and topics serious gamers care about, while also covering anime, TV, movies, and related pop culture. Its taxonomy separates Tips & Guides from culture routes. Collect guides independently from commentary when a workflow needs durable game help, because opinion and reported news have a different expected shelf life.
Call /kotaku/sections to choose games, game-tips, reviews, retro, kotaku-game-diary, fine-art, or entertainment subtopics.
Use /kotaku/news for the current public RSS stream or /kotaku/headlines for a topic-specific feed.
Use /kotaku/article for public article metadata and body paragraphs, and /kotaku/author for a contributor profile.
FAQ
game-tips is a dedicated Tips & Guides vertical, while games and news are separate RSS section routes.
Yes. Entertainment and its action, fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and superhero subtopics cover film and TV-oriented culture.
Axios reported that G/O Media sold Kotaku to European media company Keleops in July 2025.