RECAP2015-W4211 OCT TO 18 OCT 2015
Week of 11 Oct 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
154
-10% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
106
across 15 outlets
GAMES COVERED
75
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
6
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.
TRENDING▲ +2300%
Minecraft: Story Mode
OUT NOW
6
PIECES
6 writers · 6 outlets
TP
AW
RR
TRENDING▲ +122%
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below
OUT NOW
6
PIECES
5 writers · 5 outlets
RR
KH
SP
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 1: The Order of the Stone
OUT NOW
5
PIECES
5 writers · 5 outlets
BS
DN
TH
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.
PW
Philippa WarrPC Gamer
FILED
7 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Thursday (1), Friday (2), Saturday (2), Sunday (2).
GS
Graham Smith
Writing about 80 Days, Far Cry 4, Prison Architect
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (1), Sunday (2).
KB
Ken Barnes
Writing about Crimsonland, Fermi's Path, Laserlife
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (1).
MF
Mike Futter
Writing about Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 5 - The Vault of the Traveler, Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch - Enhanced Edition
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (3).
JW
John WalkerKotaku
Writing about Mushroom 11, Skyshine's Bedlam, Stranglehold
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Thursday (1), Saturday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 101 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
RM
Rich McCormick
The Verge·16 Oct 2015
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A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.