{"id":9933,"date":"2011-02-08T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"assassin-s-creed-brotherhood-wins-2011-wga-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9933-assassin-s-creed-brotherhood-wins-2011-wga-award","title":{"rendered":"Assassin\u2019s Creed: Brotherhood wins 2011 WGA Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Writers Guild of America has handed out its 2011 award for &lsquo;outstanding achievement in videogame writing during 2010.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>The WGA has often been lambasted for its odd selection of titles. They have explained via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2011-02-04-the-wga-defends-its-game-writing-award-blog-entry\" target=\"_blank\">Gamesindustry.biz <\/a>that there are a number of factors for inclusion in their nomination. The explanation is lengthy, but basically, writers need to be members of the Videogame Writers Caucus (US$60 yearly fee), the games need to have credited writers (which many games do not fulfil) and the developers need to take the initiative and submit scripts.<\/p>\n<p>The nominees for the 2011 videogame writing awards were:<\/p>\n<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Brotherhood<br \/>Fallout: New Vegas<br \/>God of War III<br \/>Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Wii)<br \/>Singularity<br \/>Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II<\/p>\n<p><strong>And the winner is&hellip;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Brotherhood<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Story by Patrice Desilets, Jeffrey Yohalem, Corey May.<\/p>\n<p>Lead Script Writer: Jeffrey Yohalem.<\/p>\n<p>Script Writers: Ethan Petty, Nicholas Grimwood, Matt Turner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers Guild of America hands brotherhood an award for its script writing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}