WGA Announces Videogame Nominees
The Writers Guild Of America is still on strike, but they've announced the five nominees for videogame writing. This is the first year that videogames have been considered as a category, but unfortunately, due to the ongoing strike, there will be no awards show in LA for the nominees to attend. The nominees are:
- Crash Of The Titans, written by Christopher Mitchell for Sierra Entertainment
- Dead Head Fred, written by Dave Ellis and Adam Cogan for D3 Publisher
- The Simpsons Game, with lead writer Matt Selman, written by Tim Long and Matt Warburton, dialogue by Jeff Poliquin for Electronic Arts
- The Witcher, with lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec, dialogue by Sebastian Stepien, additional dialogue by Marcin Blacha and writers Sande Chen and Anne Toole for Atari
- World in Conflict, story design by Christofer Emgard, story consultant Larry Bond and script consultant Ed Zuckerman for Sierra Entertainment.
And the winner is... oh, wait. That won't be announced until February 9. I find that group of nominated games slightly odd. Now, I haven't personally played any of them, so perhaps Crash Of The Titans is utter genius. (Though I have heard good things about The Witcher's storyline) Having played through BioShock and Mass Effect, I found those to be quite well-written. Perhaps the eligibility requirements excluded them?
WGA Announces Videogame Nominees [Variety]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 15 January 2008
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My guess is that the eligibility requirements include "the writer is a WGA member". That's the only explanation I can imagine for such an odd and incomplete list..... video game writers aren't unionized.