RECAP2025-W5221 DEC TO 28 DEC 2025
Week of 21 Dec 2025The 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
575
-43% on last week
ACTIVE WRITERS
163
across 19 outlets
GAMES COVERED
432
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.
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.
EM
Ewan MooreScreen Rant
Writing about Red Dead Redemption 2, Grand Theft Auto VI, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
FILED
29 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (5), Tuesday (3), Wednesday (4), Thursday (6), Friday (3), Saturday (4), Sunday (4).
LD
Liam DoolanNintendo Life
Writing about Mario Kart World, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
FILED
23 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (5), Tuesday (4), Wednesday (5), Saturday (4), Sunday (5).
FG
Fraser GilbertPure Xbox
Writing about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Split Fiction
FILED
22 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (6), Tuesday (6), Wednesday (5), Thursday (2), Friday (2), Saturday (1).
SB
Sammy BarkerPush Square
Writing about Game of the Year, Merry Christmas: Snowball Bubble, Jusant
FILED
18 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (4), Tuesday (3), Wednesday (3), Thursday (4), Friday (2), Sunday (2).
CC
Chris CarterScreen Rant
Writing about Grand Theft Auto VI, Arms, Blue Prince
FILED
18 pieces
M T W T F S S
Publishing activity: Monday (4), Tuesday (3), Wednesday (1), Friday (5), Saturday (2), Sunday (3).
DEEPER IN THE INDEX
Another 158 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
GP
Graham Pembrey
GamesRadar+·26 Dec 2025
"The physical world gave us possibilities we didn't have before": How Grim Fandango's 3D environments revolutionized PC gaming in 1998interviewonGrim Fandango
GM
Guy Miquel-Albert
GamesRadar+·24 Dec 2025
"I adored working on this level of the game, but it gave us serious problems" – The making of Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the MovieinterviewonKong: The 8th Wonder of the World
JC
Joey Chiu
Nintendo Life·23 Dec 2025
Nintendo New York's Switch 2 Launch Event Felt Like Coming HomefeatureonMario Kart World+ 1 more
PF
Paul Farrelly
Screen Rant
Screen Rant·23 Dec 2025
PlayStation 6, Next-Gen Xbox Officially Getting Long-Awaited SequelnewsonDead Island 2
TR
Trevor Rhodes
Rock Paper Shotgun·22 Dec 2025
Take a tour of Fallout 76's Burning Springs with our recently defrosted Ohioan historianfeatureonFallout 76 & Fallout 76: Burning Springs
A writer becomes a "new voice" the first time their byline enters the CritIndex graph.