Ignoring all of the other crap Kotaku and Gawker in general get up to, just leaking people's stuff like that is a fairly good way to ruin relationships.
Game publishers should be free to control the timing of news on their own projects. Kotaku helps no-one but itself by leaking that stuff early. That's not a service to the consumer in any way.
It's like just feeding someone's kids an hour before their parents are cooking dinner. You might be superficially pleasing the kids but it has no positive impact on anything in any important sense.







