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BMG Interactive

American-British video game publisher

17×
vs its own baseline
16×
year on year
+77.5%
per month, last 90 days
74
confidence / 100
Share of all English Wikipedia traffic · weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 315% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

4.15×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

30%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

54%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.89× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

2071 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

BMG Interactive was an American video game publisher based in New York. It was founded in 1993 by BMG and closed in 1998 and it was succeeded by Rockstar Games. The company maintained offices in France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Singapore and Australia, as well as New York City.

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16×
vs baseline
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