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Coverage tracker

The most covered news stories, 26 October to 1 November 2026

FTMQ Gaming reads 5,396 headlines from 460 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first.

  1. 2
    Microsoft offers voluntary exit packages to up to 60,000 employees

    9 outlets · first: The Verge Tech, Mon 15:58 UTC · Industry

  2. 3
    Donald Glover to create and star in PUBG Netflix series

    9 outlets · first: Gematsu, Thu 17:39 UTC · Industry

  3. 4
    Grand Theft Auto 6 file size reported at 210 gigabytes

    6 outlets · first: Push Square, Tue 17:45 UTC · Top Stories

  4. 5
    Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 players faces input lag on Switch 2

    6 outlets · first: Digital Foundry, Fri 15:11 UTC · Top Stories

  5. 7
    Discord public server messages will soon appear in Google search results

    5 outlets · first: Dexerto, Tue 17:34 UTC · Top Stories

  6. 8
    Monster Hunter Outlanders launches globally on iOS and Android

    5 outlets · first: Pocket Gamer, Thu 02:00 UTC · Top Stories

  7. 9
    Shenmue 3 Enhanced delayed to early 2027 on PlayStation 5

    4 outlets · first: Push Square, Sun 18:24 UTC · PlayStation

  8. 10
    Epic Games confirms AI tools are building Unreal Engine 6 and Fortnite

    4 outlets · first: PC Gamer, Wed 13:58 UTC · Industry

  9. 11
    EA cancelled Mass Effect and closed BioWare to focus on Star Wars

    4 outlets · first: IGN, Fri 14:34 UTC · Industry

  10. 12
    Former League of Legends world champion Cyanide dies aged 31

    3 outlets · first: Dexerto, Mon 11:12 UTC · Esports

  11. 13
    Sucker Punch Lays Off 24 Staff Members Following Recent Expansion

    3 outlets · first: Gematsu, Mon 18:10 UTC · Industry

First to the story

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

  1. Gematsu2
  2. Push Square2
  3. PC Gamer2
  4. Dexerto2
  5. VGC1
  6. The Verge Tech1
  7. Digital Foundry1
  8. Pocket Gamer1
  9. IGN1

Busiest outlets

Headlines published in the feeds we read.

  1. Polygon308
  2. GamesRadar248
  3. Engadget222
  4. Tom's Hardware197
  5. Pocket Gamer191
  6. IGN180
  7. PC Gamer170
  8. Nintendo Everything168
  9. Dexerto165
  10. Kotaku146

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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, 26 October to 1 November 2026, https://gaming.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-26

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.