News: The best written games of the year, according to the Writer's Guild of America.
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.