While its ongoing strike is throwing a wrench in other awards ceremonies, the Writers Guild of America has nominated five video games for the 2008 WGA Awards. A planned Feb. 9 ceremony in Los Angeles has been canceled due to the strike, but WGA East is holding out hope that its event on the same night will go on as planned at the Broadway Millennium.
The nominees are:
Crash of the Titans, written by Christopher Michell for Sierra Ent.
Dead Head Fred, written by Dave Ellis and Adam Cogan for D3 Publisher
The Simpsons Game, written by Matt Selman, Tim Long and Matt Warbuton, with dialogue by Jeff Poliquin for Electronic Arts
The Witcher, with lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec, dialogue by Sebastian Stepien, additional dialogue by Marcin Blacha and writers Sande Chen and Anne Toole for Atari
World of Conflict, story design by Christofer Emgard, story consultant Larry Bond and script consultant Ed Zuckerman and Sierra Ent.
To be eligible, the games had to have been released between Dec. 1, 2006, and Nov. 20, 2007, but did not have to be produced under WGA jurisdiction. Writers of source material were not eligible, and the credited scribes must have been or applied to become members of the WGA’s New Media Caucus.
