The Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) has announced its nominees for outstanding writing in a video game. Though the WGA is typically known as the guild that represents film and television writers, the WGA caucus began a video-game category two years ago to “encourage storytelling excellence in videogames, to improve the status of writers, and to encourage uniform standards within the gaming industry”. There are five nominees for this years awards – more than double that of last years. Those nominees are: Assassin’s Creed 2, Uncharted 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Wet, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
The awards ceremony will take place on February 20, 2010, at simultaneous ceremonies held in both Los Angeles and New York City. Last years WGA winner was Lucas Arts’ Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which is considered as Star Wars canon by Lucas Arts. Though the video-game industry itself seems to still be learning that story is king, industry outsiders readily accept that games are an amazing way to tell a story.
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