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Here Are Your Writers Guild Video Game Award Nominees

The Writers Guild of America know video games can have good writing. And last year handed out their first video game writing awards. This month, it’s time to hand out their second awards.


July 4, 2008
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Behind the WGA Nominees: Where Were Portal, BioShock?

Though Portal and BioShock were largely the critical favourites among last year’s crop of titles, earning numerous industry awards apiece, the Writer’s Guild of America decided to bestow its newly-created Videogame Writing Award on Dead Head Fred. Nothing against that title, but many game fans were surprised that many other more obvious candidates didn’t even make the list of nominees.

At 1UP, Lara Crigger shared the general puzzlement: