RECAP2016-W143 APR TO 10 APR 2016
Week of 3 Apr 2016The 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
141
+0% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
95
across 14 outlets
GAMES COVERED
73
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
2
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, Battleborn, Battlefleet Gothic: Leviathan
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (2), Thursday (3), Friday (1).
SB
Sammy BarkerPush Square
Writing about Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Resident Evil 6, Dark Souls III
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Thursday (1), Sunday (2).
TW
Thomas WhiteheadNintendo Life
Writing about Miitomo, My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, Star Fox Zero
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Thursday (2), Sunday (1).
JW
John WalkerKotaku
Writing about Enter the Gungeon, Hyper Light Drifter
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1).
BC
Brendan Caldwell
Writing about Ashes of the Singularity, PlanetSide 2, Tom Clancy's The Division
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 90 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
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.