The Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) has announced which writers are up for this year’s ‘Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing’ award. The list includes two Ubisoft games, both from the Assassin’s Creed franchise. You can see the full list of nominees below:
Alien: Isolation | Writers Dan Abnett, Dion Lay, Will Porter; SEGA.
Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry | Lead Scriptwriter Jill Murray; Scriptwriter Melissa MacCoubrey; Story by Jill Murray, Hugo Giard, Wesley Pincombe; Ubisoft.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity | Story by Alexandre Amancio, Sylvain Bernard, Travis Stout; Scriptwriting Alexandre Amancio, Travis Stout, Russell Lees, Darby McDevitt, Ceri Young; Additional Scriptwriting Jeffrey Yohalem; Ubisoft.
The Last of Us: Left Behind | Written by Neil Druckmann; Sony Computer Entertainment.
This will the eighth year that the WGA has given an award for video game writing. Previous winners include Amy Hennig for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Jill Murray for Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation.
Via Gamespot