Every year the Writers Guild of America awards a special Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing award to the team responsible for the most memorable interactive entertainment script. Which of these five titles will walk away a winner on February 19?
You know what I love about the Writers Guild of America Video Game Writing Award? Itâs a chance for games that werenât nominated for any other category to shine. Just look at poor Brink. Not only wasnât it nominated for any other major awards, just about everyone I know forgot it even existed. Now it stands proudly among the likes of Batman: Arkham City, Assassinâs Creed: Revelations, Uncharted 3, andâŠMortal Kombat?
There was writing in Mortal Kombat?
And if your favorite game didnât make the cut, rest easy; to be eligible members of the writing staff must be or have applied to be members of the guildâs Videogame Writers Caucus at the time their game was released, and who wants to deal with that hassle, other than the Mortal Kombat guys?
Check out the full list of nominees and appreciate a group of people that doesnât get the recognition they so richly deserve.
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN VIDEO GAME WRITING
Assassinâs Creed: Revelations, Story by Alexandre Amancio, Jean Guesdon, Corey May, Darby McDevitt; Multiplayer Story by StĂ©phane Blais, Richard Farrese, Jeffrey Yohalem; Lead Script Writer Darby McDevitt; Script Writers Richard Farrese, Nicholas Grimwood, Corey May, Jeffrey Yohalem; Greek and Turkish Ambient Dialogue Writer Vincenzo Beretta; Ubisoft
Batman: Arkham City, Lead Narrative Designer Paul Crocker; Story Written by Paul Dini, Paul Crocker and Sefton Hill; Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Brink, Lead Writer Edward âBongoboyâ Stern; Bethesda Softworks
Mortal Kombat, Story by John Vogel, Brian Chard, Dominic Cianciolo, Alexander Barrentine, Jon Greenberg; Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Uncharted 3: Drakeâs Deception, Written by Amy Hennig; Sony Computer Entertainment
