Variety is reporting that the Writer's Guild of America has announced the nominees for the best video game writing of 2008. The games eligible for the award are Fallout 3, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Tomb Raider: Underworld and the relatively unknown Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! The winner of last year's inaugural award by the WGA was Dead Head Fred.

Here's the full list of nominees provided by Variety:

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (EA); Writer: Haris Orkin. Story Producer: Mical Pedriana.

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! (Mousechief); Writing: Keith Nemitz. Additional Writing: Adrianne Ambrose.

Fallout 3 (Bethesda); Lead Writer: Emil Pagliarulo. Quest Writing: Erik J. Caponi, Brian Chapin, Jon Paul Duvall, Kurt Kuhlmann, Alan Nanes, Bruce Nesmith, and Fred Zeleny. Additional Quest Writing: Nate Ellis, William Killeen, Mark Nelson, and Justin McSweeney.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (LucasArts); Writers: Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford and Cameron Suey.

Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos); Story: Eric Lindstrom and Toby Guard. Screenplay: Eric Lindstrom.