RECAP2024-W491 DEC TO 8 DEC 2024
Week of 1 Dec 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
133
+87% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
87
across 14 outlets
GAMES COVERED
236
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▲ +1900%
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
OUT NOW
17
PIECES
15 writers · 12 outlets
FG
BK
JA
TRENDING▲ +200%
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
OUT NOW
6
PIECES
9 writers · 5 outlets
RP
CP
RR
TRENDING▲ +300%
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
OUT NOW
4
PIECES
7 writers · 3 outlets
ST
CP
RR
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.
R
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).
RR
Robert RamseyPush Square
Writing about Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Dragon's Dogma II
FILED
6 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Friday (4), Saturday (1).
NR
Nic Reuben
Writing about Chronicles: Medieval, Divinity: Original Sin II, Mechabellum
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Thursday (1), Sunday (1).
AH
Alana Hagues
Writing about Donkey Kong 64, Fantasian Neo Dimension, The Plucky Squire
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (1), Wednesday (1), Friday (1).
JN
Jim NormanNintendo Life
Writing about Feast Your Eyes
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Tuesday (1), Wednesday (2), Friday (1).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 82 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
MJ
Matt Jackson
Destructoid·7 Dec 2024
10 best Ticket to Ride maps and variantsrounduponTicket to Ride: Europe+ 2 more
SN
Sunborn Network Technology
Eurogamer·6 Dec 2024
Free-to-play strategy RPG Girls Frontline 2: Exilium Launches on PC and mobilefeature
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.