RECAP2018-W0131 DEC TO 7 JAN 2018
Week of 31 Dec 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
82
-11% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
51
across 11 outlets
GAMES COVERED
85
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
1
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▲ +23%
PUBG: Battlegrounds
OUT NOW
4
PIECES
4 writers · 3 outlets
GS
CC
CR
TRENDING▲ +167%
Yakuza 0
OUT NOW
4
PIECES
4 writers · 2 outlets
SB
SV
JG
TRENDING▲ +167%
Night in the Woods
OUT NOW
4
PIECES
4 writers · 2 outlets
SB
SV
JH
ALSO PICKING UP · 5 GAMES
Persona 5
OUT NOW
3 writers · 2 outlets
▲ +20%
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
OUT NOW
3 writers · 2 outlets
-14%
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
OUT NOW
3 writers · 2 outlets
▲ +9%
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
OUT NOW
3 writers · 1 outlets
▲ +100%
Monster Hunter: World
OUT NOW
2 writers · 3 outlets
▲ +100%
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.
R
Rps
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
AS
Adam Smith
Writing about A Wolf in Autumn, Furi, Heart's Medicine: Time to Heal
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (2), Friday (2).
AM
Alec MeerEurogamer
Writing about Hitchhiker
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (2), Wednesday (1), Friday (1).
DR
Dom Reseigh-Lincoln
Writing about Pic-a-Pix Deluxe, The Third
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (2), Saturday (1), Sunday (1).
JC
Jon Cousins
Writing about InnerSpace, Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure Deluxe, The Coma: Recut
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 46 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
YL
Yuri Litvinenko
Nintendo Life·4 Jan 2018
Nintendo Is Finally Taking One Of The World's Biggest Countries Seriouslyfeature
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.