RECAP2015-W1826 APR TO 3 MAY 2015
Week of 26 Apr 2015The 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
132
-16% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
86
across 15 outlets
GAMES COVERED
79
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
10
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.
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.
MF
Mike Futter
Writing about Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains, Batman: Arkham Knight, Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess
FILED
11 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (2), Wednesday (2), Thursday (4), Friday (2).
JW
John WalkerKotaku
Writing about Broken Age, Environmental Station Alpha, Metamorphabet
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Wednesday (3), Friday (1).
PW
Philippa WarrPC Gamer
Writing about Kalimba, Football, Dota 2
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (3), Wednesday (1), Thursday (2).
KH
Kyle HilliardGame Informer
Writing about Yooka-Laylee, Persona 5, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Friday (1), Saturday (1), Sunday (2).
CC
Chris CarterScreen Rant
Writing about The Weaponographist, Hearthstone: Blackrock Mountain, Game of the Year
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (1), Sunday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 81 writers filed this week.
Browse them by outlet, beat or the games they cover →
03 · READER ATTENTION
What's drawing readers in
No reader signal recorded for this week.
04 · NEW VOICES
First piece indexed this week
TK
Tom Kail
Polygon·1 May 2015
Mario Kart 8 players have no clue what coins do (But it's great design anyway)opiniononMario Kart 8
ZF
Zack Furniss
Destructoid·30 Apr 2015
505 Games to publish Overkill's The Walking Dead shooterrounduponOverkill's The Walking Dead
SC
Scott Constantine
Rock Paper Shotgun·30 Apr 2015
RPS Community Update: What You Did in Cities: Skylines, Guild Wars 2, PlanetSide 2 and GTA VfeatureonGrand Theft Auto V
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.