RECAP2024-W1614 APR TO 21 APR 2024
Week of 14 Apr 2024The 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
94
-2% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
69
across 15 outlets
GAMES COVERED
81
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.
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.
AO
Alice O'Connor
Writing about Corru.Observer, Growing My Grandpa!
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (3), Saturday (1).
FG
Fraser GilbertPure Xbox
Writing about Another Crab's Treasure, Baldur's Gate III, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
FILED
5 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (1), Saturday (2).
JA
James ArcherRock Paper Shotgun
Writing about Cities: Skylines II, Manor Lords
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (2), Thursday (1).
NR
Nic Reuben
Writing about Goblin Stone, Still Wakes the Deep
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Sunday (1).
RR
Robert RamseyPush Square
Writing about Final Fantasy XVI: The Rising Tide
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 64 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
JV
Jesse Vitelli
IGN
Kotaku·18 Apr 2024
10 Things To Do Before Final Fantasy XIV's Dawntrail ExpansionnewsonFinal Fantasy XIV Online
MT
Michael Thomsen
Eurogamer·15 Apr 2024
Penrose is a haunted interactive novella that's happy for you to mess with causalityfeatureonPenrose
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.