RECAP2020-W1429 MAR TO 5 APR 2020
Week of 29 Mar 2020The 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
117
+0% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
85
across 15 outlets
GAMES COVERED
78
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▲ +6300%
Resident Evil 3
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21
PIECES
16 writers · 14 outlets
LO
NC
ST
TRENDING▲ +2300%
Persona 5 Royal
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7
PIECES
6 writers · 6 outlets
RR
MH
MH
TRENDING▲ +500%
Bleeding Edge
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6
PIECES
6 writers · 5 outlets
MP
FG
EV
ALSO PICKING UP · 5 GAMES
Good Job!
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5 writers · 5 outlets
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
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4 writers · 3 outlets
In Other Waters
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4 writers · 4 outlets
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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2 writers · 3 outlets
-43%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
OUT NOW
2 writers · 3 outlets
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.
SV
Sin Vega
Writing about Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, LoveChoice, Ostriv
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Tuesday (2), Wednesday (1).
NC
Nate Crowley
Writing about Resident Evil 3, Red Dead Redemption 2
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
OT
Ollie TomsRock Paper Shotgun
Writing about Hades
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
SB
Sammy BarkerPush Square
Writing about Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Godfall, MLB The Show 20
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Sunday (1).
ST
Stephen TailbyPush Square
Writing about Last Year, Creature in the Well, Driveclub VR
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (2).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 80 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
AJ
Ali Jones
GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+·3 Apr 2020
Valorant hands-on: The tactics of Counter-Strike meet the hero antics of Overwatch in Riot Games' latestpreviewonValorant
GM
Graeme McMillan
GamesRadar+·1 Apr 2020
10 Best time-travelling superheroes of all timerounduponSuperboy: Spies from Outer Space+ 2 more
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.