RECAP2019-W1110 MAR TO 17 MAR 2019
Week of 10 Mar 2019The 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
90
-20% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
71
across 11 outlets
GAMES COVERED
50
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
2
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▲ +833%
Tom Clancy's The Division 2
OUT NOW
9
PIECES
7 writers · 4 outlets
CC
BC
LC
TRENDING▲ +700%
One Piece: World Seeker
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4
PIECES
4 writers · 3 outlets
RR
KH
IK
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
OUT NOW
4
PIECES
4 writers · 4 outlets
IK
JD
TP
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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John WalkerKotaku
Writing about Baba Is You, Hypnospace Outlaw
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Thursday (1).
AB
Alice Bell
Writing about Trüberbrook, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Friday (2).
IK
Imran KhanIGN
Writing about Battlefield V, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, One Piece: World Seeker
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Thursday (1).
DR
Dom Reseigh-Lincoln
Writing about Golf Peaks, Rico
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
BC
Brendan Caldwell
Writing about The Culling, Tom Clancy's The Division 2
FILED
2 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Friday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 66 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
EG
Eirik Gumeny
Polygon·12 Mar 2019
What Red Dead Redemption 2 gets right about having a terminal diseaseopiniononRed Dead Redemption 2
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.