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A live read on gaming media + audience: what 72 news outlets are writing about, what's pulling Twitch viewers, and what's holding Steam players — refreshed hourly.

Last 7 days · 68 articles · 23/72 feeds active· Updated Aug 17, 2026, 08:25 AM UTC

This week, Trading Cards dominated gaming coverage with 68 articles — down 1% from the previous period. Magic: The Gathering led individual game mentions with 3 hits. General drove 69% of all stories.

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Coverage Scorecard

Articles per platform tag

PlatformArticles

Topic Distribution

What kinds of stories dominate

TopicArticles

Top Mentioned

Most-named entities in headlines

EntityMentions
  1. 1Magic: The Gathering1.4k watching3
  2. 2Celebration3
  3. 3Dwarves2
  4. 4Dragon36 watching2
  5. 5Pokémon TCG's2
  6. 6TCG Card Shop Simulator2
  7. 7Pokémon TCG Pocket2
  8. 8Pokémon TCG2
  9. 9Ken Sugimori2
  10. 10Weekly Update1

Trading Cards

68 TCG articles tracked

Most active TCG sources

  • Steam News11
  • IGN11
  • TheGamer10

Top on Twitch

Most-watched right now

Game7dViewers
  1. 1Escape from TarkovEscape from Tarkov88.9k
  2. 2League of LegendsLeague of Legends41.2k
  3. 3Counter-Strike 2Counter-Strike 237.4k
  4. 4Grand Theft Auto V LegacyGrand Theft Auto V Legacy24.7k
  5. 5VALORANTVALORANT20.9k
  6. 6World of WarcraftWorld of Warcraft14.5k
  7. 7Always OnAlways On14.3k
  8. 8FortniteFortnite14.1k
  9. 9Dota 2Dota 214.0k
  10. 10Project ZomboidProject Zomboid12.1k

Top on Steam

Most concurrent players right now

Game7dPlayers
  1. 1Counter-Strike 2Counter-Strike 2619.2k
  2. 2Dota 2Dota 2500.7k
  3. 3PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDSPUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS349.3k
  4. 4PalworldPalworld167.7k
  5. 5Bongo CatBongo Cat136.7k
  6. 6Apex Legends™Apex Legends™118.4k
  7. 7TBH: Task Bar HeroTBH: Task Bar Hero94.5k
  8. 8RustRust67.4k
  9. 9Delta ForceDelta Force65.6k
  10. 10Stardew ValleyStardew Valley60.7k

Console War — Week over Week

Who's winning the coverage race — and what's driving it

Nintendo led console coverage this week with 10 articles (down 2), 6 ahead of PlayStation.

PlatformNowPriorΔ
Nintendo1012▼ 2

Biggest story: TCG Card Shop Simulator — “TCG Card Shop Simulator gets Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch release date, new trailer” (Nintendo Everything)

PlayStation41▲ 3

Biggest story: TCG Card Shop Simulator — “TCG Card Shop Simulator launches September 15 for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Xbox One, Switch, and PC” (Gematsu)

Xbox31▲ 2

Biggest story: TCG Card Shop Simulator — “TCG Card Shop Simulator launches September 15 for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Xbox One, Switch, and PC” (Gematsu)

Hardware Coverage

Handhelds and headsets in the headlines — and what's being said

Story Velocity

Articles per day in the window

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Low 1Avg 9High 13

What's Spiking

Phrases surging in headlines — and the stories behind them

Most Active Sources

Top 5 publishers by article count

SourceArticles
  • Steam News11
  • IGN11
  • TheGamer10
  • GamesRadar5
  • Polygon5

Recent Breaking Stories

Stories where 4+ sources published the same game/topic within an hour — likely embargo lifts

No synchronized publishing detected.

Latest tracked headlines

Newest articles powering the dashboard — links out to the source

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Generated Aug 17, 2026, 08:25 AM UTC from 72 RSS feeds. Refreshes hourly.