The winner of this year’s Writers Guild of America Award was recently announced to be Ubisoft’s excellent Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, beating back the writing efforts contained in other nominated games such as God of War III, Fallout: New Vegas, Singularity and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II.

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The nominations for this year’s Writers Guild Awards have been announced by the Writers Guild of America, with God of War III, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, two Ubisoft titles, an Activision game and a title from Bethesda Softworks all becoming finalists for what is becoming an impressive award, and which aims to recognise the best story and dialogue writing in 2010.

Here’s the full nominations list:

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At this rate, Naughty Dog will need to drastically increase the size of the studio’s trophy case…

On Saturday the 20th of February, the winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Videogame Writing in 2009 was announced to be Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, awarded to the title’s chief writer and creative director, Amy Hennig.

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The Writers Guild of America has announced its five nominations for the Videogame Writing Award of 2009, comprising the games Uncharted 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Wet and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The winner will be announced on February 20th during the 2010 Writers Guild Awards ceremony, being held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York.

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In a ceremony held late last week, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed walked away with the Video Game Writing Award from the Writers Guild of America.

Other nominees for the award were Fallout 3 (Bethesda), Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (EA), Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos) and Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble (Mousechief). Star Wars: The Force Unleashed writers Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford and Cameron Suey picked up the award on the team’s behalf.

Now in its second year, the Video Game Writing Award was awarded at this year’s 2009 Writer’s Guild Awards. Last year’s award winner was Dead Head Fred from Vicious Cycle Software, and written by Dave Ellis and Adam Cogan

Not to lessen the achievements of the abovementioned games, but hopefully we’ll see a greater adoption of these awards next year, as these games and nominees aren’t really indicative of the quality of writing on show in 2008’s games.