RECAP2022-W0820 FEB TO 27 FEB 2022
Week of 20 Feb 2022The 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
103
+2% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
80
across 14 outlets
GAMES COVERED
56
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.
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.
FG
Fraser GilbertPure Xbox
Writing about Elden Ring, Grand Theft Auto V, Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1), Saturday (2).
ET
Ed Thorn
Writing about Elden Ring
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1), Sunday (1).
JA
James ArcherRock Paper Shotgun
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Friday (3).
TW
Thomas WhiteheadNintendo Life
Writing about MLB The Show 22, Tin Hearts
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (2), Saturday (1).
AB
Alice Bell
Writing about Elden Ring
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (2), Friday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 75 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
MC
Mike Channell
Eurogamer·25 Feb 2022
Grid Legends review - a fun but thin expansion to 2019's rebootreviewonGrid Legends
GB
Geoffrey Bunting
Rock Paper Shotgun·25 Feb 2022
Making Souls games accessible isn't the same as making them easyfeature
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.