The Writer’s Guild of America have announced the nominees for its first ever video game writing awards, and for the most part their choices don’t completely suck. As a matter of fact, two of my favorite games of last year are up for the award – The PC action RPG The Witcher and alternative timeline action RTS World in Conflict. The complete list: – Crash of the Titans,” written by Christopher Mitchell for Sierra Entertainment - “Dead Head Fred,” written by Dave Ellis and Adam Cogan for D3 Publisher - “The Simpsons Game,” with lead writer Matt Selman, written by Tim Long and Matt Warburton, 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 in Conflict,” story design by Christofer Emgard, story consultant Larry Bond and script consultant Ed Zuckerman for Sierra Entertainment.
Crash of the Titans? Really? I suppose that just goes to show that your game can have a great story and still be overwhelmingly mediocre.
WGA announces videogame nominees [Variety]
Kotakuite Simon sent in this photo of this Crash Bandicoot themed Hummer he spied at the Annual Balloon Fiesta in Bristol, U.K. I could try to write something clever about it but it wouldn’t come close to Simon’s descriptions of the actual event so I’ll let him do the talking on this one. Has spinners, the works. All with a Wii on the inside that people can play. Opposite side of picture, staff weren’t too keen of me getting a snap. Some man from Kodak stood there playing with it for about an hour so no children could have a go. Sadly as with most things Crash these days it didn’t bring much attention to the franchise. To sum it up from the words of a trusty Nachos eating festival goer “So which of you lucky men gets to drive this bad boy?” And cue countless parents trying to introduce their kids to the wonderful world of spinners.
You know, I have always thought of the British as a classy people, but it’s good to know that they enjoy nachos, Hummers and spinners just as much as us classless Americans. More »
