RECAP2022-W2015 MAY TO 22 MAY 2022
Week of 15 May 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
79
+16% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
58
across 13 outlets
GAMES COVERED
49
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.
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong
OUT NOW
10
PIECES
10 writers · 10 outlets
RW
AB
AO
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
MultiVersus
OUT NOW
10
PIECES
7 writers · 7 outlets
ST
CT
MR
TRENDING▲ +500%
Evil Dead: The Game
OUT NOW
6
PIECES
6 writers · 6 outlets
JG
TN
CD
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.
AB
Alice Bell
Writing about Card Shark, Eternal Threads, Saints Row
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Wednesday (3).
RR
Robert RamseyPush Square
Writing about Saints Row IV
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (1).
CD
Christian DonlanEurogamer
Writing about Evil Dead: The Game, The Movies
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (2), Thursday (1).
MR
Martin Robinson
Writing about MultiVersus
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1).
PO
Pj O'Reilly
Writing about Arma Reforger, MultiVersus, Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 53 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
GM
Grayson Morley
Polygon·20 May 2022
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A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.