1996 - Founder Adam Doree gains experience with print titles like CVG and The Mirror, while developing a games 'fanzine' about Sega.
1998 - The 'Internet' is pretty much taking off now and the fanzine is excitedly developed into an original games website called Segaweb.
1999 - Segaweb grew to around 800,000 users in one year, attracting commercial interest, new possibilities and hidden challenges.
2000 - Company is incorporated and venture capital funding secured from Durlacher (now Panmure Gordon) to grow the business.
2001 - Site expands into a popular US-centric games network, Gamerweb, which peaked at 1.2 million users and over 30 staff with offices in Trafalgar Square London, the US and Tokyo.
2002 - Gamerweb acquired by sister company Hi2 (now Telecoms TV) and redeveloped by the new owners into a live TV show on Sky.
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2003 - Adam decides to start from scratch and launches Kikizo, a game site that also covered movies and 'babes' originally. The site is self- funded and excels at video content, before many competitors ever started doing video.
2004 - Kikizo wins a contract publishing deal with AOL UK, providing news and features. Kikizo is profiled on UK TV's Sky One.
2005 - Groundbreaking interviews with 'untouchable' executives like Satoru Iwata, as well as ongoing HD video content, establish Kikizo as a serious destination for gamers.
2006 - Kikizo sees all-time traffic high with a world-first hands-on with PlayStation 3 - months before its playable debut at E3.
2007 - The web's most detailed GTA IV coverage is published on the site. Kikizo relocates to Leicester Square, London's entertainment capital. Kikizo staff become regular guests on UK TV's "Games Night".
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2008 - Kikizo is relaunched - staff celebrates ten years since the launch of the site that started it all. Kikizo is nominated for a Games Media Award for 'Best Games Website'.
March 2009 - Kikizo reveals its newly upgraded partnership with AOL, with the launch of casual games site Flytrap Games. Kikizo manages AOL Games in the UK, France and Germany.
July 2009 - Kikizo begins to reveal its new commercial strategy with the announcement of its first new in-house site BlurayDaily.com. The new strategy attracts media interest.
Sept 2009 - Imminent 'changes' announced.
Oct 2009 - [PR] Kikizo relaunches, rebrands as Video Games Daily. Four additional new sites are launched at the same time: FPS Gamer, VideoGameTV, LevelSkip and Gaijin Gamer. The name 'Kikizo' now refers to the network of sites and the company, Kikizo Ltd, for which a new corporate site, Kikizo.biz, is also launched.
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