RECAP2010-W274 JUL TO 11 JUL 2010
Week of 4 Jul 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
5
-44% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
5
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
NCAA Football 11
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
MK
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Crackdown 2
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
BR
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Blacklight: Tango Down
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
MB
ALSO PICKING UP · 1 GAMES
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
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.
BR
Ben Reeves
Writing about Crackdown 2
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1).
MK
Matthew KatoGame Informer
Writing about NCAA Football 11
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1).
MB
Matt Bertz
Writing about Blacklight: Tango Down
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (1).
TT
Tim Turi
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Thursday (1).
PK
Phil Kollar
Writing about Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Friday (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.