Medium “Gaming” tag statistics
How busy the Gaming tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is low, and the tag is friendly for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 340 stories from the last 14.3 days
Busier than 11% of 73 tracked tags
45% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 24 stories a day, Gaming is busier than 11% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (115,838 followers per daily story) is higher than 93% of tags — more readers per story than average.
75% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 45% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 20% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.4 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Gaming stories
| Publication | Followers | Gaming stories (last 14.3d) |
|---|---|---|
| Mithrie — Gaming News | 61 | 15 |
| Tax Insights┃Vergi Analizleri | 10 | 13 |
| Analog Stick | 410 | 11 |
| Beyond the Game | 325 | 11 |
| Worth Playing PC | 280 | 9 |
| Entertainment Breakdown | 274 | 3 |
| Cryscore | 5 | 2 |
| ILLUMINATION Gaming | 1.1K | 2 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 2 |
| Vidya Gaem Awards | 5 | 2 |
Top Gaming stories right now
- Not Every Online Friendship Has to Become a Deep One
- To Be That Good Took AGES: A Rare Time My Father Surprised Me
- GTA 6 Doesn’t Need to Sell, and That’s the Problem
- Red Dead Redemption II Is Somehow Aging in Reverse
- Your Karma Meter Is the Only Witness
- After Thousands of Failures, Edison Invented the Lightbulb. This Game Teaches The Same Perseverance
- Software Secrecy Lasted 40 Years. Claude Code Just Picked the Lock.
- PlayStation Is Killing Physical Games? Why 2028 Could Change Gaming Forever
- I Thought the Hard Part Would Be the Code
- Some Decisions Need Silence, Not Advice
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Gaming tag on Medium?
- About 24 per day (166 per week), based on 340 stories published in the 14.3-day window before our last scan. The tag has 113,616 stories in total.
- Is the Gaming tag competitive?
- Competition is low: it is busier than 11% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 115,838 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Gaming?
- 45% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 75% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.