The announcement sees Pratchett continuing her role as writer and narrative designer for the delightfully despotic series and follows her nomination for Best Videogame Script for her work on the original Overlord game in the Writers' Guild Awards 2008. In addition to videogames, the prestigious Writers' Guild Awards recognizes the best in British writing talent across TV and radio drama, soap, comedy, theater and movie screenplay categories. The awards will be held at BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) on Sunday, November 23, 2008 in London.

"For a relatively new entertainment medium, it's a sign of great progress that the industry is being recognized by the Writers' Guild in this way. Writing for games is part alchemy, part narrative woodwork and part swimming in shark infested waters wearing ham pants, so it's a real honor to be nominated for Overlord. The Overlord titles are fantastic creative projects and Triumph and Codemasters make a talented and supportive team who keep some of those sharks at bay," said Rhianna Pratchett. "It's a real pleasure to be back in the evil writing seat and taking the Overlord and the Minions to new lands and new adventures for the 2009 titles."

"Congratulations to Rhianna on her well-deserved nomination for Best Videogame Script," said Lennart Sas, director and Overlord lead at Triumph Studios. "A huge part of Overlord's popularity stems from its tongue-in-cheek, often dark humor and Rhianna's dialogue provides the perfect fit to the gameplay. Rhianna understands that writing for games is different than writing for movies, which puts her above some of the Hollywood writing talent that have lent their names to games previously. We're delighted to have her on board again to work across on the next installment of the Overlord's adventures."

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