RECAP2010-W311 AUG TO 8 AUG 2010
Week of 1 Aug 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
6
+200% 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
Mortal Kombat
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
AR
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Twisted Metal
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
DR
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Red Faction: Armageddon
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
BR
ALSO PICKING UP · 1 GAMES
Race for the Galaxy
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.
AB
Adam Biessener
Writing about Race for the Galaxy
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
DR
Dan Ryckert
Writing about Twisted Metal
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (1).
AR
Andrew Reiner
Writing about Mortal Kombat
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1).
BR
Ben Reeves
Writing about Red Faction: Armageddon
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (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.