RECAP2010-W3529 AUG TO 5 SEPT 2010
Week of 29 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
8
+60% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
6
across 1 outlets
GAMES COVERED
5
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
Borderlands 2
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
BV
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Valkyria Chronicles 2
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
JJ
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Call of Duty: Black Ops
OUT NOW
1
PIECES
1 writers · 1 outlets
DR
ALSO PICKING UP · 2 GAMES
Sports Champions
OUT NOW
1 writers · 1 outlets
Crackdown 2
OUT NOW
0 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 Sports Champions
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (3).
DR
Dan Ryckert
Writing about Call of Duty: Black Ops
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (1).
JJ
Joe Juba
Writing about Valkyria Chronicles 2
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1).
JC
Jeff Cork
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1).
AR
Andrew Reiner
FILED
1 piece
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 1 writers filed this week.
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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.