Fortnite

With a staggering 9,250 total articles, Fornite has managed to keep a substantially high sentiment score of 0.75 historically, hitting a pot-launch high of 0.87 in the first month of 2024. This peak is likely in response to the release of Lego Fortnite, the newest game mode released in conjunction with The Lego Group and quickly gained positive reception from its player base.

Other peaks in the games sentiment have occured around the time of popular "Chapters" within the games seasons, which usually marks the edition of new events or ingame items. For example, one of the games post-launch peaks occured around the time that the popular "Tilted Towers" was revealed once again on the games map, as well as the introduction of new creatures onto the map. This update was also one of the last to garner substantial coverage, as its frequency subsided until the recent aforementioned released of the Lego Fortnite mode, which resulted in the highest one month article cover of 278 articles.

Prior to its release of the battle royale version, Fornite had very little traction amongst the news outlets despite its extensive history, even within the first five months of release, its coverage never reached higher than 28 articles in a month. This is largely in part due to the fact that the battle royale was initially supposed to be a paid-early access, until Epic Games decided to release it free with microtransactions. By July 2018, Fornite reached its second highest article count peak of 264, one month after the game reached 125 million players globally and during the games first organized pro-am.

Since Gamerant comprises a majority of the articles, it is not unexpected that they also comprise almost 49% of the authors. However, unexpectedly the second most unique journalists are IGN affiliated, with 122 unique authors or 21.9% of all covering journalists for Fortnite. This disproportional distribution of journalists has resulted in the second largest source, Gamespot, only comprising 75 or 13.5% of the total journalists despite publishing 24.6% of the articles. However, this means that IGN has no concentrated journalist publishing about Fornite, with their largest journalists Adam Bankhurts (78 articles) and Michael Koczwara (78 articles) not even cracking the top 20 most frequent journalists covering Fornite.

The most frequent Journalist covering Fornite is Mark Delaney (470 articles) from Gamespot, although the next two largest authors are from Game Rant, Ashley Claudino (399 articles) and William Park (343 articles). Interestingly, the Game Rant staff is technically the third largest "journalist" for Fortnite although this is a collection of multiple contributions for the publisher.

Given that Gamerant comprises a majority of the articles published, as well as the majority of covering journalists, it is not unsurpising that all three of the highest sentiment journalists are from Game Rant as well as two of the three lowest. Only James Carr from Gamespot manages to report the lowest sentiment amongst all authors covering Fortnite, which corresponds with Gamespot's low average sentiment. Noticeably, two authors manage to report a perfectly postive score while covering Fortnite, which is surprising given their considerable number of articles, Zunair Shafique (19 articles) and Kai Adlet (17 articles)