RECAP2018-W325 AUG TO 12 AUG 2018
Week of 5 Aug 2018The 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
148
+21% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
105
across 14 outlets
GAMES COVERED
70
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.
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 Electronauts, Marvel's Spider-Man, Doom Eternal
FILED
8 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (2), Saturday (1).
MV
Mitch VogelNintendo Life
Writing about Dead Cells, Minit, Ōkami HD
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (2), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1).
AR
Andrew Reiner
Writing about Doom Eternal, Dead Cells, Overcooked! 2
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Friday (1), Sunday (1).
DR
Dom Reseigh-Lincoln
Writing about Flipping Death, Megaton Rainfall, Not a Hero
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (1).
JC
Jay CastelloAftermath
Writing about Overcooked! 2
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Thursday (1), Saturday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 100 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
IH
Iain Harris
GamesRadar+
Rock Paper Shotgun·10 Aug 2018
The Joy of subverting retro-platformer tropes in Dere Evil .Exefeature
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.