RECAP2024-W5115 DEC TO 22 DEC 2024
Week of 15 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
79
-35% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
58
across 14 outlets
GAMES COVERED
136
total games covered this week
NEW VOICES
0
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.
RR
Robert RamseyPush Square
Writing about Ghost of Yotei, Elden Ring Nightreign, Persona 3 Reload
FILED
9 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Tuesday (3), Friday (1), Saturday (2), Sunday (2).
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).
MW
Mark WarrenRock Paper Shotgun
Writing about Fallout 76, Diablo IV
FILED
4 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Wednesday (1), Thursday (2), Friday (1).
BC
Brendan Caldwell
Writing about Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Caves of Qud
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (1), Thursday (1), Friday (1).
FG
Fraser GilbertPure Xbox
Writing about Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
FILED
3 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Friday (1), Saturday (2).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 53 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
No first-time writers indexed this week.
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.