RECAP2022-W3528 AUG TO 4 SEPT 2022
Week of 28 Aug 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
118
-9% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
72
across 15 outlets
GAMES COVERED
84
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
3
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▲ +4700%
Immortality
OUT NOW
12
PIECES
12 writers · 11 outlets
AB
AB
AO
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
The Last of Us Part I
OUT NOW
9
PIECES
9 writers · 7 outlets
AW
SB
RR
TRENDINGNEW THIS WEEK
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
OUT NOW
5
PIECES
5 writers · 5 outlets
SM
CC
DL
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.
RW
Rachel Watts
Writing about Lies of P, New Tales from the Borderlands, Return to Monkey Island
FILED
7 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Saturday (3), Sunday (4).
LR
Liam Richardson
Writing about Lies of P, New Tales from the Borderlands, Return to Monkey Island
FILED
7 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Saturday (3), Sunday (4).
ET
Ed Thorn
Writing about High on Life, Hyenas, Men of War II
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (2), Wednesday (2), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
FG
Fraser GilbertPure Xbox
Writing about F1 Manager 2022, Immortality
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Saturday (1).
CT
Chris TapsellEurogamer
Writing about Hyenas, Immortality, Pentiment
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (2), Friday (1), Saturday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 67 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
LL
Lex Luddy
Kotaku
Push Square·29 Aug 2022
First Impressions: SEGA's Multiplayer FPS Hyenas Is Baffling, But Maybe in a Good WayfeatureonHyenas
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.