RECAP2019-W4824 NOV TO 1 DEC 2019
Week of 24 Nov 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
98
-11% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
65
across 11 outlets
GAMES COVERED
114
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.
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.
CT
Chris TapsellEurogamer
Writing about Advance Wars, Age of Mythology, Beyond Good & Evil
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1), Saturday (1), Sunday (2).
TP
Tom PhillipsIGN
Writing about Fortnite, Beyond Good & Evil, Burnout
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Friday (2), Sunday (2).
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Lottie LynnEurogamer
Writing about Grandia, Advance Wars, Age of Mythology
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Wednesday (1), Sunday (2).
CD
Christian DonlanEurogamer
Writing about Advance Wars, Age of Mythology, Beyond Good & Evil
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Thursday (1), Sunday (2).
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Imogen Beckhelling
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Thursday (2), Sunday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 60 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
SG
Stuart Gipp
Nintendo Life·29 Nov 2019
Where The Water Tastes Like Wine (Switch) - A Unique Narrative Experience That Fails As A Video GamereviewonWhere the Water Tastes Like Wine
KH
Kyle Hoekstra
Rock Paper Shotgun·28 Nov 2019
The making of Facing Worlds, Unreal Tournament's most popular mapfeature
JB
Jon Bailes
GamesRadar+
Polygon·27 Nov 2019
Lost Ember conjures up an epic animal adventure, but can’t quite deliver on that promisereviewonLost Ember
SW
Sam White
VG247·27 Nov 2019
Cyberpunk creator: "if you want to get somebody to see your point of view, don’t preach"interview
TN
Thomas Nickel
VG247·26 Nov 2019
M2 Shows Us Aleste Branch, the Triumphant Return of a Classic 8-Bit ShmupinterviewonAleste Branch
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.