RECAP2022-W4613 NOV TO 20 NOV 2022
Week of 13 Nov 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
102
+12% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
80
across 15 outlets
GAMES COVERED
116
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
6
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▲ +1900%
Somerville
OUT NOW
10
PIECES
10 writers · 10 outlets
LP
RM
CP
TRENDING▲ +3900%
Pentiment
OUT NOW
10
PIECES
10 writers · 9 outlets
JW
JR
FG
TRENDING▲ +367%
Pokémon Scarlet
OUT NOW
7
PIECES
7 writers · 7 outlets
KS
AH
BS
ALSO PICKING UP · 5 GAMES
Goat Simulator 3
OUT NOW
5 writers · 5 outlets
▲ +1900%
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
OUT NOW
4 writers · 4 outlets
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
OUT NOW
4 writers · 3 outlets
Marvel's Midnight Suns
OUT NOW
3 writers · 3 outlets
Sonic Frontiers
OUT NOW
2 writers · 2 outlets
-27%
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.
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Christian DonlanEurogamer
Writing about Marvel's Midnight Suns, Pentiment, Somerville
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
BK
Ben Kerry
Writing about Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Forza Motorsport
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (3), Sunday (1).
AO
Alice O'Connor
Writing about Brotato
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Saturday (1).
JR
Jordan RaméeGameSpot
Writing about Marvel's Midnight Suns, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Pentiment
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
OR
Ollie ReynoldsNintendo Life
Writing about Resident Evil 2
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (1), Friday (1), Sunday (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
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Kenneth Shepard
Kotaku
Polygon·17 Nov 2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet review: a step back for the open-world erareviewonPokémon Scarlet
UE
Ugbad Elmi
GamesRadar+·14 Nov 2022
50 Best iPhone games to make your commute 97% betterrounduponFlorence+ 41 more
J
Jay-Castello
Polygon·14 Nov 2022
Obsidian’s murder mystery Pentiment is full of tough, Fallout-style choicesreviewonObsidian
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.