Talk:Brian Crecente

Requested move

{{movereq|Brian Crecente}} Brian D. Crecente → Brian Crecente — The name without the "D." is the more common name and the one used as his byline on Kotaku. In fact, none of the sources on the page use "D." The destination name is currently a redirect to Kotaku with only one edit (its current revision) on file, and no talk page. an odd name 18:10, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

 Done, seems uncontroversial to me. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:32, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks! --an odd name 13:13, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Why does this person require a page? I see nothing of notability here, we could find sources on all of the other staff. Does that mean each one of them deserves a page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.246.6.169 (talk) 22:07, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

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COI edit request from article subject: corrections and sourcing improvements

Requested corrections and additions (conflict of interest disclosure) Disclosure: I am Brian Crecente, the subject of this article. Per WP:COI I am not editing the article directly and am instead requesting changes here.

Extended content

I want to acknowledge up front: this is a long list, and I'm aware that a subject arriving with eight requests about his own article can come across as self-promotional. I've tried to guard against that in two ways. First, every request is tied to independent sourcing rather than my say-so — and where the only available copy of something is on my own site, I've labeled it as such and offered print scans. Second, I've ordered the requests by how I'd prioritize them if editors only want to act on some: requests 1–3 are corrections (a broken sentence, mistitled roles, and sourcing weaknesses in the existing text, including several claims currently cited to my own LinkedIn that I'd like to see replaced with independent sources). Requests 4–8 are additions, and I hold them more loosely — if editors feel any of them give undue weight or aren't sufficiently significant, I defer to that judgment entirely and won't relitigate. Trim, condense, or decline whatever doesn't serve the article. Two of the strongest sources for the corrections are already listed under "Further reading" but are not cited in the body: the Westword profile (Roberts, 2017) and the 5280 profile (Sanchez, 2009).

1. Fix a broken sentence

The current text reads: "In July 2017, Crecente announced on Rolling Stone's gaming website Glixel." The middle of this sentence has been lost in a past edit. Please restore it to something like:

In July 2017, Crecente announced he was leaving Polygon to become editorial director of Glixel, Rolling Stone's gaming website.

Sources: Sinclair, Brendan (July 11, 2017). "Brian Crecente leaving Polygon". GamesIndustry.biz (already ref 3); Roberts, Michael (August 29, 2017). "Video-Game Journo Brian Crecente Knew the Future Wasn't in Newspapers". Westword. https://www.westword.com/news/video-game-journalist-brian-crecente-goes-from-newspapers-to-kotaku-polygon-glixel-9358310 — which identifies the title as "editorial director for Glixel."

2. Correct job titles in the lede

The lede currently describes me as having "served as video games editor at Variety" and being "in charge of game coverage at Rolling Stone." The sourced titles are: Rolling Stone/Glixel: editorial director (Westword, 2017, above). Variety: the existing ref 4 (Variety's own announcement, April 2018) can be checked for the exact title used there; I was editorial director of the games vertical. Suggested lede wording: "...previously served as editorial director of video games at Variety and editorial director of Rolling Stone's Glixel."

3. Expand the newspaper career (early career section)

The current early-career text is two sentences and omits one paper entirely. The Westword profile supports the following expansion:

Crecente worked for daily newspapers including the Albany Democrat-Herald, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Palm Beach Post, and the Rocky Mountain News, primarily covering crime and public safety. At the Rocky Mountain News, where he was a police reporter, he was later given a video game beat, and the paper eventually devoted a regular full page to video game coverage — an unusual commitment for a daily newspaper at the time. He left the Rocky in 2007, when editors sought to move him off the gaming beat and back to general news amid staff departures, to run Kotaku full time.

Sources: Roberts, Westword (2017) — names all four papers, the Rocky's dedicated games page, and the circumstances of the 2007 departure; Sanchez, Robert (July 2009). "Game Boy". 5280. https://5280.com/game-boy/ — describes him as "a former cops reporter at the Rocky Mountain News." Note on the awards paragraph: The existing paragraph listing the APSE and Colorado SPJ awards is currently cited only to LinkedIn (ref 15), which is a self-published source. Full copies of several of the award-connected original stories are republished, with original publication dates, at padandpixel.com (my company site) and can serve as convenience copies verifying the bylines and content, per WP:ABOUTSELF — I can also supply scans of the print originals if editors prefer: "Gangs thrive in shadows since bloody summer of 1993" (Rocky Mountain News) — the gang-violence reporting referenced in the SPJ awards: https://padandpixel.com/gangs-thriving-in-shadows-since-the-bloody-summer-of-1993/ "Dearly Departed" (Rocky Mountain News, with Michael Bedan) — the Bison Dele investigation honored by APSE: https://padandpixel.com/dearly-departed/ "Shooting at cars spurs most discipline by Denver PD" (Rocky Mountain News) — the police-involved-shootings analysis referenced in the SPJ awards: https://padandpixel.com/shooting-at-cars-spurs-most-discipline-by-dpd/ "Childs family called 911 fifty times in 3 1/2 years" (Rocky Mountain News) — coverage of the 2003 Paul Childs police shooting: https://padandpixel.com/childs-family-called-911-fifty-times-in-3-12-years/ "How a Florida city used a 1,000 percent jump in speeding tickets to finance its police department" (Palm Beach Post) — an example of the Florida investigative work: https://padandpixel.com/how-a-florida-city-used-a-1000-percent-jump-in-speeding-tickets-to-finance-its-police/ Coverage of the 2002 Hayman Fire and the Palm Beach Post's team coverage of the 2000 presidential election recount are also reflected in the awards list; I can supply clippings for those on request, as those originals are not currently republished online. I'd rather improve the paragraph's sourcing than see it trimmed.

4. Add sourced detail on the Kotaku years

The article currently covers Kotaku in two sentences. The following are documented by independent sources:

When Crecente took over Kotaku in late 2004, the site had roughly 10,000 monthly unique visitors and Gawker Media had given him a few months to turn it around before shutting it down; by his 2012 departure it drew close to ten million monthly uniques. Source: Roberts, Westword (2017). (This also lets you replace the current ref 2, padandpixel.com's own About page, with an independent source for the growth claim.)

In 2007, Sony temporarily blacklisted Kotaku and Crecente from PlayStation press events after the site published a story on the then-unannounced PlayStation Home service; Sony rescinded the ban days later. Sources: contemporaneous coverage at Gizmodo — "Playstation Blacklists Kotaku for Responsible Journalism" (March 1, 2007), https://gizmodo.com/playstation-blacklists-kotaku-for-responsible-journalis-240885 — plus the citations already used for the same incident on the Kotaku article.

Also in 2007, attorney Jack Thompson sued Gawker Media and Crecente over reader comments on Kotaku; the suit was dismissed the following day. Sources: the citations already used for this on the Kotaku article.

In 2009 Crecente reported that retailer GameStop was selling used games as new, in possible violation of Federal Trade Commission regulations, and wrote analytical features on subjects such as Objectivism in BioShock. Source: Sanchez, 5280 (2009), which also credits him with covering games "with the same seriousness that a White House reporter might cover the president's health-care reform plans."

5. Polygon detail

Crecente co-founded Polygon in 2012 as news editor and was later promoted to executive editor. His feature work there included the 2017 pinball history "When Pigs Flew: The Strange History of Capcom's Big Bang Bar" and the 2017 feature "Democracy in Cuba Is Smuggled on Thumb Drives, Spreads on Street Networks," part of his ongoing reporting on video game culture in Cuba, which later received Society of Professional Journalists recognition.

Sources: Roberts, Westword (2017) — confirms the news editor → executive editor progression and names the Cuba feature as a signature project; existing refs 10–11 (SPJ) already cover the awards; Crecente, Brian (March 21, 2017). "When Pigs Flew: The Strange History of Capcom's Big Bang Bar". Polygon. https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/3/21/14937540/history-of-big-bang-bar-pinball (primary source for the fact of authorship, per WP:ABOUTSELF; the piece was noted in pinball enthusiast publications).

6. Possible "Notable reporting" section

This is the request where I'm most conscious of the line between documenting and promoting, so treat it as raw material rather than a demand for a section. If editors think a dedicated section is undue weight for an article this size, folding one or two of these into the career narrative — or skipping them — is a perfectly good outcome. That said, five stories received independent coverage beyond their original publication: Sean Paul Hanify jailhouse confession (Rocky Mountain News, 2002). In October 2002, Crecente conducted a jailhouse interview at the Denver County Jail with Sean Paul Hanify, who confessed to killing as many as seven men. The confession received national coverage; The Advocate reported on it, citing Hanify's "interviews with Denver's Channel 4 TV and the Rocky Mountain News." : Sources: "Bisexual alleged serial killer confesses". The Advocate. October 31, 2002. https://www.advocate.com/news/2002/10/31/bisexual-alleged-serial-killer-confesses-6794 ; original story: Crecente, Brian D. "Jolting Words from Jail". Rocky Mountain News, October 28, 2002 — full text republished at https://padandpixel.com/jolting-words-from-jail/ (convenience copy per WP:ABOUTSELF; print clipping available on request). Modern Warfare 3 leak (Kotaku, 2011). In May 2011, Crecente published "The Modern Warfare 3 Files," an exclusive detailing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's campaign, multiplayer, release date, and assets months before Activision's planned reveal. Forbes later described it as one of the biggest leaks in video game history, and Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg publicly discussed the company's crisis response to it. : Sources: Kain, Erik (November 23, 2015). "How Activision Spun The 'Call Of Duty' Leak Into PR Gold". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/11/23/how-activision-turned-the-modern-warfare-3-leak-crisis-into-opportunity/ ; original story: Crecente, Brian (May 13, 2011). "The Modern Warfare 3 Files: Exclusive First Details on the Biggest Game of 2011". Kotaku. https://kotaku.com/the-modern-warfare-3-files-exclusive-first-details-on-5801226 ; Ad Age's CES coverage of Hirshberg's remarks (linked from Kotaku's 2012 follow-up). Cuba series (Polygon/Rolling Stone, 2016–2018). Reporting on video game development and esports in Cuba, including the 2017 Polygon feature "Democracy in Cuba Is Smuggled on Thumb Drives, Spreads on Street Networks." The series received SPJ special recognition and a first-place SPJ award for excellence in esports writing. : Sources: existing refs 10–11 (SPJ); Roberts, Westword (2017), which identifies the Cuba feature as a signature project of his Polygon tenure. Magic Leap One reveal (Rolling Stone/Glixel, December 2017). Crecente was granted the exclusive first look at Magic Leap's headquarters and revealed the Magic Leap One headset, the secretive startup's first product after nearly $2 billion in funding. The story was picked up industry-wide, with Forbes, VentureBeat, and others crediting the exclusive to Crecente. : Sources: Fink, Charlie (December 20, 2017). "Magic Leap Unveiled, But Still Unknown". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2017/12/20/magic-leap-unveiled-but-still-unknown/ — "Brian Crecente of Rolling Stone went to the secretive company's Florida headquarters for an exclusive first look"; Takahashi, Dean (December 20, 2017). "Magic Leap says it will ship its first augmented reality glasses in 2018". VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/business/magic-leap-says-it-will-ship-its-first-augmented-reality-glasses-in-2018/ ESA investigation (Variety, May 2019). A months-long investigation into the Entertainment Software Association following president Mike Gallagher's departure, in which nearly a dozen current and former employees described internal dysfunction and raised questions about spinning off E3. The ESA announced a new president and CEO days after publication, and later coverage of the association cited the exposé. : Sources: Crecente, Brian (May 10, 2019). "Entertainment Software Association Still Reeling After Head's Exit". Variety. https://variety.com/2019/gaming/features/entertainment-software-association-mike-gallagher-e3-1203211280/ ; Crecente, Brian (May 13, 2019). "Video Game Industry Association Appoints New President, CEO". Variety. https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/esa-new-president-ceo-1203213225/ ; Shacknews/Yahoo Finance (August 3, 2019) on the E3 data breach, which references "an exposé by Variety that exposed an organization in disarray": https://finance.yahoo.com/news/e3-data-breach-exposed-2-201800449.html (If editors prefer, the Kotaku-era items from request 4 — the Sony blacklisting and GameStop investigation — could live in this section instead of the career narrative, and the Cuba feature mentioned in request 5 need only appear once; I defer to editorial judgment on structure.)

7. Add a Works / Bibliography section

References 18–20 mention three books but the article has no bibliography section. Please add: Good Game, Well Played: A collection of video game essays as seen on Kotaku and Polygon (2019) Contributor, A Handheld History (Lost in Cult) Contributor, Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age (existing ref 20, Time Extension) I can supply publisher details and stronger sources than the current Twitter/Amazon links if helpful.

8. Personal life

The sentence stating I have "a son and two grandchildren" is cited to a 2012 Polygon piece that predates the grandchildren and cannot support the claim. Either update the citation or simplify to "a son and grandchildren." (For accuracy: there are three grandchildren; I recognize this needs a citable source and can provide one if a suitable published reference exists.) To close where I started: I know this is a lot. If the only things that come out of this request are the broken sentence fixed, the titles corrected, and the LinkedIn citations replaced with independent sources, I'll consider it a success — the article would be more accurate and better sourced, which is the point. Everything beyond that is at editors' discretion, and I'm happy to provide additional sourcing, scans, or clarification for any item. Thank you for your time and for maintaining the article.

Crecenteb (talk) 16:19, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

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Regards,  Spintendo  22:00, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Hey Spintendo, I appreciate you taking the time to look this over. Here's the fixed request. Please let me know if I screwed anything else up. Thanks!

Same structure as the original: items 1–3 are corrections and sourcing improvements, items 4–8 are additions I hold loosely and defer to editorial judgment on. As before, I am the article subject, per my disclosure above.

1. Fix a broken sentence

The article currently reads: "In July 2017, Crecente announced on Rolling Stone's gaming website Glixel." The middle of the sentence has been lost in a past edit. Requested replacement:

In July 2017, Crecente announced he was leaving Polygon to become editorial director of Glixel, Rolling Stone's gaming website.

Supporting references:

Existing ref 3 (Sinclair, GamesIndustry.biz, July 11, 2017) already in the article. Roberts, Michael (August 29, 2017). "Video-Game Journo Brian Crecente Knew the Future Wasn't in Newspapers". Westword. Retrieved August 7, 2026. — identifies the title as "editorial director for Glixel." (This source is currently in Further reading; the requests below reuse it, so it may be worth converting to a named ref, e.g. <ref name="Westword2017">.)

2. Correct job titles in the lede

Current: "served as video games editor at Variety" and "in charge of game coverage at Rolling Stone." Requested: "...previously served as editorial director of video games at Variety and editorial director of Rolling Stone's Glixel."

Supporting references: Roberts 2017 (above) for the Glixel title; existing ref 4 (Variety's April 2018 announcement) for the Variety title.

3. Expand the newspaper career section

Requested addition to the early-career section:

Crecente worked for daily newspapers including the Albany Democrat-Herald, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Palm Beach Post, and the Rocky Mountain News, primarily covering crime and public safety. At the Rocky Mountain News, where he was a police reporter, he was later given a video game beat, and the paper eventually devoted a regular full page to video game coverage. He left the Rocky in 2007, when editors sought to move him back to general news, to run Kotaku full time.

Supporting references:

Roberts 2017 (above) — names all four papers, the dedicated games page, and the 2007 departure. Sanchez, Robert (July 2009). "Game Boy". 5280. Retrieved August 7, 2026. — describes Crecente as "a former cops reporter at the Rocky Mountain News." (Also currently in Further reading.)

Sourcing improvement for the existing awards paragraph: That paragraph is currently cited to LinkedIn (ref 15), a self-published source. The award-connected original stories can be cited directly as print sources; I can provide scans of the originals, and Internet Archive captures of the Rocky Mountain News's website exist for at least some of them, on request:

Crecente, Brian D. (August 23, 2003). "Gangs thrive in shadows since bloody summer of 1993". Rocky Mountain News. Crecente, Brian D.; Bedan, Michael (October 12, 2002). "Dearly Departed". Rocky Mountain News. — the Bison Dele investigation honored by APSE. Crecente, Brian D. (October 26, 2001). "Shooting at cars spurs most discipline by Denver PD". Rocky Mountain News. — the police-involved-shootings analysis referenced in the SPJ awards; an Internet Archive capture of the original rockymountainnews.com page exists and can be added as an archive URL. Crecente, Brian D. (July 12, 2003). "Childs family called 911 fifty times in 3 1/2 years". Rocky Mountain News. — coverage of the 2003 Paul Childs police shooting. Crecente, Brian D. (December 24, 2000). "How a Florida city used a 1,000 percent jump in speeding tickets to finance its police department". Palm Beach Post.

Coverage of the 2002 Hayman Fire and the Palm Beach Post's team coverage of the 2000 presidential election recount are also reflected in the awards list; clippings available on request.

4. Kotaku-era detail

Requested additions to the Kotaku section, each with its reference:

When Crecente took over Kotaku in late 2004, the site had roughly 10,000 monthly unique visitors and Gawker Media had given him a few months to turn it around before shutting it down; by his 2012 departure it drew close to ten million monthly uniques.

Roberts 2017 (above). This would also allow replacement of current ref 2 (padandpixel.com's About page) with an independent source for the growth claim.

In 2007, Sony temporarily blacklisted Kotaku and Crecente from PlayStation press events after the site published a story on the then-unannounced PlayStation Home service; Sony rescinded the ban days later.

"Playstation Blacklists Kotaku for Responsible Journalism". Gizmodo. March 1, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2026. — plus the references already used for this incident on the Kotaku article.

Also in 2007, attorney Jack Thompson sued Gawker Media and Crecente over reader comments posted on Kotaku; the suit was dismissed.

The references already used for this on the Kotaku article.

In 2009 Crecente reported that retailer GameStop was selling used games as new, in possible violation of Federal Trade Commission regulations.

Sanchez 2009 (above).

5. Polygon detail

Requested: Crecente co-founded Polygon in 2012 as news editor and was later promoted to executive editor. His feature work there included the 2017 pinball history "When Pigs Flew: The Strange History of Capcom's Big Bang Bar" and the 2017 feature "Democracy in Cuba Is Smuggled on Thumb Drives, Spreads on Street Networks," part of his reporting on video game culture in Cuba that received Society of Professional Journalists recognition.

Supporting references:

Roberts 2017 (above) — news editor → executive editor progression; identifies the Cuba feature as a signature project. Existing refs 10–11 (SPJ) for the awards. Crecente, Brian (March 21, 2017). "When Pigs Flew: The Strange History of Capcom's Big Bang Bar". Polygon. Retrieved August 7, 2026. — primary source for authorship only, per WP:ABOUTSELF.

6. Possible "Notable reporting" section

As noted in the original request, I offer these as raw material and defer entirely on whether a section, partial inclusion in the career narrative, or omission best serves the article:

Sean Paul Hanify jailhouse confession (2002). Crecente conducted a Denver County Jail interview in which Hanify confessed to killing as many as seven men; the confession received national coverage.

"Bisexual alleged serial killer confesses". The Advocate. October 31, 2002. Retrieved August 7, 2026. — cites Hanify's "interviews with Denver's Channel 4 TV and the Rocky Mountain News." Crecente, Brian D. (October 28, 2002). "Jolting Words from Jail". Rocky Mountain News. — bylined original (print scan available on request).

Modern Warfare 3 leak (2011). Kotaku's exclusive detailing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 months before Activision's planned reveal.

Kain, Erik (November 23, 2015). "How Activision Spun The 'Call Of Duty' Leak Into PR Gold". Forbes. Retrieved August 7, 2026. Crecente, Brian (May 13, 2011). "The Modern Warfare 3 Files: Exclusive First Details on the Biggest Game of 2011". Kotaku. Retrieved August 7, 2026. — primary, for authorship.

Cuba series (2016–2018). Covered by existing refs 10–11 (SPJ) and Roberts 2017, above.

Magic Leap One reveal (December 2017). The exclusive first look at Magic Leap's headquarters and first product.

Fink, Charlie (December 20, 2017). "Magic Leap Unveiled, But Still Unknown". Forbes. Retrieved August 7, 2026. — "Brian Crecente of Rolling Stone went to the secretive company's Florida headquarters for an exclusive first look." Takahashi, Dean (December 20, 2017). "Magic Leap says it will ship its first augmented reality glasses in 2018". VentureBeat. Retrieved August 7, 2026.

ESA investigation (May 2019). A months-long Variety investigation into the Entertainment Software Association following its president's departure; the ESA announced new leadership days after publication.

Crecente, Brian (May 10, 2019). "Entertainment Software Association Still Reeling After Head's Exit". Variety. Retrieved August 7, 2026. — primary, for authorship. "E3 data breach that exposed 2,000 journalists' private data puts ESA in legal crosshairs". Shacknews. August 3, 2019. Retrieved August 7, 2026 – via Yahoo Finance. — later coverage referencing "an exposé by Variety that exposed an organization in disarray."

7. Works / Bibliography section

References 18–20 mention three books but no bibliography section exists. Requested:

Good Game, Well Played: A collection of video game essays as seen on Kotaku and Polygon (2019) Contributor, A Handheld History (Lost in Cult) Contributor, Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age (existing ref 20)

I can supply publisher details in CS1 {{cite book}}: Empty citation (help) format if editors want to proceed with this section.

8. Personal life

The sentence "a son and two grandchildren" is cited to a 2012 source that predates the grandchildren. Requested: either simplify to "a son and grandchildren" or update if a suitable published reference exists (I can look for one).

As before: if only items 1–3 are actioned, I'll consider this request a success. Thank you again for the formatting guidance and for your time. Crecenteb (talk) 14:12, 7 August 2026 (UTC)