RECAP2016-W181 MAY TO 8 MAY 2016
Week of 1 May 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
127
-11% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
81
across 14 outlets
GAMES COVERED
73
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
3
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.
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Mike Futter
Writing about Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Dead Island Definitive Collection, Kathy Rain
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (3), Wednesday (2).
CC
Chris CarterScreen Rant
Writing about Battleborn, The Climb
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Wednesday (1), Friday (1).
JM
Jeffrey Matulef
Writing about Gonner, Let It Die, Severed
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Wednesday (1), Friday (1).
AM
Alec MeerEurogamer
Writing about Dark Souls III, Space Hulk: Deathwing, Star Wars: Force Commander
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (2), Saturday (1).
MK
Matthew KatoGame Informer
Writing about Dangerous Golf, Doom, Fallout 4
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (2).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 76 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
JA
Julia Alexander
Polygon·2 May 2016
Game of Thrones is the perfect example of television's huge problem with deathopinion
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.