RECAP2010-W2230 MAY TO 6 JUN 2010
Week of 30 May 2010The week in game journalism.
A snapshot of what writers were chasing this week. We sort by how much coverage jumped against the previous four weeks, so a story breaking now rises above games that already get steady writeups every week.
PIECES INDEXED
4
-60% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
4
across 1 outlets
GAMES COVERED
4
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
0
first article indexed
01 · TRENDING
Games that picked up coverage this week
The games whose coverage spiked this week against their own four-week baseline. Worth a look if you missed them.
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Gears of War 3
OUT NOW
2
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
MH
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
JM
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
NHL Slapshot
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
MB
ALSO PICKING UP · 1 GAMES
The Sims 3: Ambitions
OUT NOW
1 writers · 1 outlets
02 · IN THE BYLINE THIS WEEK
Writers we kept seeing across the index
Worth checking in on. The cadence chart shows which days they published, which often says more about a beat than a tally does.
JM
Jeff Marchiafava
Writing about LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Friday (1).
BR
Ben Reeves
Writing about The Sims 3: Ambitions
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1).
MB
Matt Bertz
Writing about NHL Slapshot
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Friday (1).
MH
Matt Helgeson
Writing about Gears of War 3
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Thursday (1).
03 · READER ATTENTION
What's drawing readers in
No reader signal recorded for this week.
04 · NEW VOICES
First piece indexed this week
No first-time writers indexed this week.
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.