For Outstanding Achievement in Writing for Video Games
It’s no secret that Naughty Dog’sThe Last of Ushas taken home a lot of proverbial hardware this year. It can add one more trophy to the case, as Neil Druckmann, the game’s writer, won the2014 Writers Guild of America‘s Outstanding Achievement in Writing for Video Games.
Druckmann beat out the writers ofAssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag,Batman: Arkham Origins,God of War: Ascension, andLost Planet 3. Naughty Dog isn’t exactly a newcomer to the award; Amy Hennig won it in 2012 for her work onUncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.
The accolades likely won’t stop here though.The Last of Usis nominated infive categoriesat next month’s GDC Awards, and it’s unlikely that it’ll get shut out.
