Writers Guild Awards game writing nominees revealed

The Writers Guild of America has revealed the nominations for this year’s outstanding achievement in video game writing.

The accolade will honour the game with the best script published in the last year from a writer that is part of, are has at least applied to join, the WGA Video game Writers Caucus.

The nominees are:

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

The Writers Guild Awards will take place on February 14th at simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.