RECAP2023-W5010 DEC TO 17 DEC 2023
Week of 10 Dec 2023The 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
135
-1% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
94
across 16 outlets
GAMES COVERED
125
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
4
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▲ +3100%
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
OUT NOW
7
PIECES
8 writers · 5 outlets
AH
ST
MS
TRENDING▲ +2300%
Tekken 8
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6
PIECES
6 writers · 5 outlets
RR
MS
BS
TRENDING▲ +567%
House Flipper 2
OUT NOW
5
PIECES
5 writers · 4 outlets
RW
HB
TS
ALSO PICKING UP · 5 GAMES
Baldur's Gate III
OUT NOW
5 writers · 4 outlets
-20%
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
OUT NOW
5 writers · 5 outlets
▲ +900%
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
OUT NOW
5 writers · 4 outlets
▲ +25%
Final Fantasy XVI
OUT NOW
4 writers · 4 outlets
▲ +45%
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
OUT NOW
4 writers · 4 outlets
▲ +14%
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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Rps
FILED
7 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1), Saturday (1), Sunday (1).
AH
Alana Hagues
Writing about Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, Pokémon Scarlet
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (2), Friday (1).
KC
Katharine Castle
Writing about Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Thursday (1).
AO
Alice O'Connor
Writing about Doom II: Hell on Earth
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Wednesday (2), Thursday (1).
RR
Robert RamseyPush Square
Writing about Black Myth: Wukong, Dragon's Dogma II, Final Fantasy XVI: Echoes of the Fallen
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Saturday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 89 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
SK
Saleh Karaman
Rock Paper Shotgun·15 Dec 2023
Doom At 30: MyHouse.wad is an extraordinary mod that asks, "What if Doom was an ultra creepy horror game?"feature
SG
Stan Golovchuk
Polygon·13 Dec 2023
Star Wars: Unlimited pushes the limits of galactic warfare — and deck buildingpreviewonUnlimited
MF
Max Freeman-Mills
Push Square·11 Dec 2023
The Finals Is One of the Most Exciting New Online Shooters in YearspreviewonThe Finals
BK
Bj Keeton
Screen Rant·11 Dec 2023
10 Best Free Meta Quest 2 Games You Can Play Right NowrounduponGorilla Tag+ 5 more
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.