RECAP2019-W4427 OCT TO 3 NOV 2019
Week of 27 Oct 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
146
+18% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
106
across 15 outlets
GAMES COVERED
94
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
5
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▲ +2500%
Death Stranding
OUT NOW
14
PIECES
13 writers · 9 outlets
SB
ST
LC
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Luigi's Mansion 3
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14
PIECES
12 writers · 10 outlets
TP
RM
AW
TRENDING▲ +450%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
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13
PIECES
11 writers · 10 outlets
MS
JG
ST
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 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, God of War, Death Stranding
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (2), Wednesday (2), Sunday (1).
CD
Christian DonlanEurogamer
Writing about Manifold Garden
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (3), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
ST
Stephen TailbyPush Square
Writing about Battlefield V, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Death Stranding
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (2), Friday (1), Saturday (1), Sunday (1).
LC
Liam CroftPush Square
Writing about Death Stranding, Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Nioh 2
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Thursday (2), Saturday (1).
KC
Katharine Castle
Writing about Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (2), Thursday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 101 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
BR
Britt Roberts
Nintendo Life·3 Nov 2019
Let's Sing 2020 (Switch) - Uplifting Karaoke Goodness On Your SwitchreviewonLet's Sing 2020
AM
Alex Meehan
Eurogamer·30 Oct 2019
Dicebreaker Recommends: Horrified, a charming ode to the monster stories of oldfeature
GG
Griff Griffin
Kotaku
VG247·29 Oct 2019
New Battlefield 5 War in the Pacific maps are “as close to fan service as it gets” - an interviewinterviewonBattlefield V
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.