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With the sale of the video game site Kotaku to the European publisher Keleops, all but one website remains at G/O Media, which is shutting down.

G/O Media, the digital media publisher that once owned sites like Jezebel and Deadspin, announced on Wednesday that it is winding down its operations and selling off one of its last properties, the video game website Kotaku.

G/O Media, which is owned by the private equity firm Great Hill Partners, once owned a collection of websites that had belonged to the Gawker Media blog universe and The Onion. But it has slowly been shedding its holdings. With the sale of Kotaku, only one website remains: The Root, which covers Black culture and news.

G/O Media’s chief executive, Jim Spanfeller, said in a statement on Wednesday that “it became clear to our investors that it was time to move on,” alluding to a series of challenges that have

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