Kotaku’s next editor in chief will be Patricia Hernandez

When Hernandez left Kotaku to become a senior editor at Polygon in 2018, former Kotaku editor in chief Stephen Totilo, whom Hernandez will succeed, wrote that she “came out of nowhere, not even finished yet with college when she was already tearing it up at Kotaku as a freelancer. What a joy it was to see what she was capable of. Quiet and unassuming, yet brilliant and bold, she’d tell head-swiveling stories about censored sex games on Steam, about wild storm-wracked Smash Bros. tournaments, and about school kids driving their teachers to the brink with their ‘Fortnite’ obsessions.”