RECAP2017-W401 OCT TO 8 OCT 2017
Week of 1 Oct 2017The 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
159
-20% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
103
across 13 outlets
GAMES COVERED
102
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▲ +1367%
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
OUT NOW
10
PIECES
11 writers · 9 outlets
LH
CP
RR
TRENDING▲ +700%
Forza Motorsport 7
OUT NOW
8
PIECES
8 writers · 7 outlets
OW
MK
OD
TRENDING▲ +300%
Cuphead
OUT NOW
6
PIECES
5 writers · 5 outlets
MC
SP
CS
ALSO PICKING UP · 5 GAMES
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions
OUT NOW
5 writers · 4 outlets
Battle Chasers: Nightwar
OUT NOW
5 writers · 5 outlets
Destiny 2
OUT NOW
4 writers · 3 outlets
-45%
A Hat in Time
OUT NOW
4 writers · 4 outlets
Batman: The Enemy Within - Episode 2: The Pact
OUT NOW
4 writers · 4 outlets
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.
JW
John WalkerKotaku
Writing about Jydge
FILED
7 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (3), Tuesday (2), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1).
MC
Matt Cox
Writing about Cuphead, Divinity: Original Sin II, Star Wars: Battlefront II
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (2), Wednesday (1), Friday (2).
RC
Ryan Craddock
Writing about Binaries, Inversus, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Tuesday (2), Wednesday (1), Saturday (1).
AM
Alec MeerEurogamer
Writing about Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (2).
SV
Suriel Vazquez
Writing about Gundam Versus, Fear Effect Sedna, God Eater 3
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (1), Saturday (1), Sunday (3).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 98 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
EL
Edward Love
Eurogamer·6 Oct 2017
Westwood's Blade Runner is an all-time classic in danger of being forgottenfeature
GA
George Ash
Game Informer·5 Oct 2017
Star Wars Battlefront II Preview - The Multiplayer Beta Is Fun But Suffers From Frame DropspreviewonStar Wars Battlefront II
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.