RECAP2016-W402 OCT TO 9 OCT 2016
Week of 2 Oct 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
166
-1% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
95
across 15 outlets
GAMES COVERED
71
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
4
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
Batman: Arkham VR
OUT NOW
9
PIECES
9 writers · 9 outlets
SB
CC
SM
TRENDING▲ +540%
Gears of War 4
OUT NOW
9
PIECES
8 writers · 6 outlets
EE
EM
AR
TRENDING▲ +967%
Paper Mario: Color Splash
OUT NOW
8
PIECES
8 writers · 8 outlets
CA
BR
MC
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.
SB
Sammy BarkerPush Square
Writing about Batman: Arkham VR, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives
FILED
9 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (4), Thursday (1), Saturday (1), Sunday (2).
CC
Chris CarterScreen Rant
Writing about Dragon Quest Builders, Batman: Arkham VR, Harmonix Music VR
FILED
8 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (2), Wednesday (5), Friday (1).
JC
Jeff Cork
Writing about Dishonored 2, Dragon Quest Builders, Skylanders: Imaginators
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
TW
Thomas WhiteheadNintendo Life
Writing about Mario Party: Star Rush, SteamWorld Heist
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Wednesday (1), Friday (1), Sunday (1).
BC
Brendan Caldwell
Writing about Fractured Space, Osiris: New Dawn, The Writer Will Do Something
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (2), 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.