Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 2 November to 8 November 2026
FTMQ Gaming reads 3,223 headlines from 349 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first. This week is still running; the numbers are updated every hour.
- 1Terminally ill Grand Theft Auto 6 fan dies before launch
5 outlets · first: GameGPU, Mon 08:37 UTC · Top Stories
- 2Microsoft unveils new wave of Xbox Game Pass titles for November 2026
5 outlets · first: https://tech-insider.org/, Tue 07:27 UTC · Top Stories
- 3Fortnite adds rare item making entire Item Shop free for two weeks
4 outlets · first: Dexerto, Sun 11:30 UTC · PlayStation
- 4Control Resonant drives triple revenue surge for Remedy Entertainment
4 outlets · first: GamesIndustry.biz, Tue 08:39 UTC · Industry
- 5Nagoshi Studio closes following NetEase funding cuts
3 outlets · first: VGC, Mon 08:01 UTC · Industry
- 6Former Xbox COO Helen Chiang denies claims she was fired for misconduct
3 outlets · first: Windows Central, Mon 18:14 UTC · Industry
- 7Bethesda confirms The Elder Scrolls 6 title and sells official merchandise
3 outlets · first: Nintendo Life, Tue 15:20 UTC · Top Stories
- 8007 First Light launches free trial for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers
3 outlets · first: Instant Gaming News, Tue 16:13 UTC · Top Stories
- 9Nexus Mods introduces mandatory AI disclosures and user filter options
3 outlets · first: GamesRadar, Tue 23:48 UTC · Top Stories
- 10French union accuses Microsoft of sabotaging Marvels Blade development
3 outlets · first: VGC, Wed 18:13 UTC · Industry
- 11Tripwire Presents expands publishing operations for smaller indie studios
3 outlets · first: Game Developer, Wed 19:45 UTC · Industry
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- VGC2
- GameGPU1
- https://tech-insider.org/1
- Dexerto1
- GamesIndustry.biz1
- Windows Central1
- Nintendo Life1
- Instant Gaming News1
- GamesRadar1
- Game Developer1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- GamesRadar179
- Polygon143
- Pocket Gamer140
- Nintendo Life109
- IGN105
- Tom's Hardware105
- Push Square102
- Dexerto101
- Nintendo Everything96
- Engadget93
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Free to quote and chart, with a link to this page. The data is a download: CSV.
Source: FTMQ Gaming coverage tracker, 2 November to 8 November 2026, https://gaming.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-11-02
How it is counted: every report FTMQ Gaming wrote that week is matched with the headlines from the outlets we follow that are about the same event (they share its names and its less common words), published within a day and a half of it. Aggregators that repeat other outlets’ headlines are not counted. Each outlet counts once per story; the first is the earliest such headline. Only outlets with feeds we read are counted, so this measures breadth of coverage, not every report there was.