on april 6, 2009, adrian "lono" cherikos announced his official departure from the red show and from his position as editor of the sarcasticgamer.com blog, following a dispute of creative differences between the co-owners of the website. following his departure, yamster and eoco replaced him in editorial positions and they selected six new writers under the pseudonyms of "dogsdieinhotcars", "o(ld)m(arried)g(amer)", "krelith", "shanghaisix", "pillowfort" and "monstar". even more new faces: "darkwonders", "esmeralda" and "lord drattigan" have joined the writing staff since then. starting with the penny arcade expo on september 4, 2009, cherikos resumed his writing and podcasting duties for sarcastic gamer, while continuing to support achievement hunter with his show, respawn radio with 8bitbass and knuckles dawson. respawn radio joined the sarcastic gamer network on march 3, 2010, after a dispute between knuckles dawson, a former cohost and lono. lono subsequently dropped knuckles from the show and moved it to sarcastic gamer, with keadin joining as the 3rd chair. on april 5, 2010, rothbart stepped down as community manager for sarcastic gamer, but he continues to do the playstation podcast. rothbart's role as community manager was replaced by site webmaster "regua".