News: The best written games of the year, according to the Writer's Guild of America.
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The Writers Guild of America has announced their nominations for "outstanding achievement in videogame writing during the past year."
According to the WGA, publishers submitted a record number of games for consideration this year. The total number of submissions was actually more than double last year's total (which was won by Star Wars: The Force Unleashed).
the WGA chose the following five finalists from that record number:
Assassin's Creed II
Story by Corey May
Script Writers: Corey May, Joshua Rubin, Jeffrey Yohalem
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Written by Jesse Stern
Additional Writing by Steve Fukuda
Story by Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke, Jesse Stern, Jason West
Battlechatter Dialogue by Sean Slayback
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Written by Amy Hennig
Wet
Written by Duppy Demetrius
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Script Writer: Marc Guggenheim
The winner will be announced at the 2010 Writers Guild Awards, which will be held on Saturday, February 20. May the best game win.