WGA nominates Singularity, New Vegas, more for writing award

You may look forward to Christmas with the family or that first magical snow, but our favorite winter tradition is seeing what befuddling games the Writer's Guild of America has chosen to nominate for the year's best writing. Some notable previous nominees include Wet, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and (no joke) Crash of the Titans.

But it's really let us down with the 2010 lineup:

• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
  
• Fallout: New Vegas
  
• God of War III
  
• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
  
• Singularity
  
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

Sure, we could have picked better games (Mafia II, Enslaved, Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2 and Red Dead Redemption, just for starters) but none of the selections have the puzzling punch of previous picks like The Simpsons Game or Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble. Congratulations, it would seem, are in order for whichever WGA member's nephew got to pick these this year.

So way to go, kid. You don't have good taste in games, but at least you aren't a nutjob.

Update: As some of our readers have been kind enough to point out, WGA awards are limited to members of the organization, which may explain some of the more notable omissions. So now you know.