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Coverage tracker

The most covered news stories, 19 October to 25 October 2026

FTMQ Gaming reads 5,116 headlines from 457 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first.

  1. 1
    Leaked trailer reveals canceled Mass Effect Universe after BioWare closure

    13 outlets · first: RPG Site, Wed 17:06 UTC · Top Stories

  2. 2
    EA shuts down BioWare and cancels fifth Mass Effect game

    7 outlets · first: GameSpot, Wed 17:12 UTC · Top Stories

  3. 3
    Lucasfilm considering Bungie and DICE for Star Wars Battlefront 3

    6 outlets · first: Push Square, Mon 18:45 UTC · Top Stories

  4. 4
    Microsoft details pay as you go pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming

    6 outlets · first: Yahoo Tech, Tue 17:10 UTC · Esports

  5. 5
    PEGI updates age ratings for digital games with loot boxes to 16

    5 outlets · first: GamesIndustry.biz, Mon 19:12 UTC · Industry

  6. 6
    Arkane Lyon faces November deadline to find buyer or face closure

    5 outlets · first: Gematsu, Fri 13:55 UTC · Industry

  7. 7
    Xbox Chief Operating Officer Helen Chiang departs Microsoft after three months

    5 outlets · first: The Verge Tech, Fri 21:39 UTC · Top Stories

  8. 8
    Pokemon TCG Pocket expansion Dual Fusion adds dual type cards

    4 outlets · first: Polygon, Tue 15:15 UTC · Esports

  9. 9
    Microsoft and AMD are bringing FSR 4.1 upscaling to Xbox consoles

    4 outlets · first: The Verge Tech, Tue 16:21 UTC · Industry

  10. 10
    Canadian politician urges government buyout to save BioWare after studio closure

    4 outlets · first: PC Gamer, Thu 21:26 UTC · Industry

  11. 11
    Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto awarded Japans Order of Culture

    4 outlets · first: My Nintendo News, Fri 06:56 UTC · Industry

  12. 12
    New Street Fighter movie tops box office in opening weekend

    3 outlets · first: Polygon, Sun 16:14 UTC · PlayStation

  13. 13
    GameMaker will make its GMRT runtime free for commercial use in 2027

    3 outlets · first: PocketGamer.biz, Fri 09:49 UTC · Industry

First to the story

Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.

  1. The Verge Tech2
  2. Polygon2
  3. RPG Site1
  4. GameSpot1
  5. Push Square1
  6. Yahoo Tech1
  7. GamesIndustry.biz1
  8. Gematsu1
  9. PC Gamer1
  10. My Nintendo News1

Busiest outlets

Headlines published in the feeds we read.

  1. Polygon298
  2. GamesRadar243
  3. Pocket Gamer232
  4. IGN190
  5. Engadget168
  6. Dexerto164
  7. PC Gamer152
  8. Push Square145
  9. Kotaku131
  10. The Verge Tech131

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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, 19 October to 25 October 2026, https://gaming.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-19

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.