{"id":111309,"date":"2016-11-22T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T09:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=111309"},"modified":"2016-11-22T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T09:45:12","slug":"controversy-as-game-awards-removes-two-nominated-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/111309-controversy-as-game-awards-removes-two-nominated-games","title":{"rendered":"Controversy as Game Awards removes two nominated games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Another Metroid 2 Remake<\/strong> and <strong>Pokemon Uranium<\/strong> have both been quietly removed from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thegameawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game Awards&#8217;<\/a><\/strong> \u201cBest Fan Creation\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>No official announcement was made from Award organisers regarding the removal, leaving <strong>Brutal Doom\u00a064<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Enderal: The Shards of Order<\/strong> the only two games left in the category.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that Metroid and Pokemon are both Nintendo properties, a fact which may be related to the removal.<\/p>\n<p>The Game Awards&#8217; &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thegameawards.com\/rules-and-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rules &amp; Voting<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; section specifically provides that &#8220;Game publishers and developers have no involvement in the selection of nominees or winners&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Game Awards take place on 1 December at 18:00 SAST.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Now read: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/111019-the-golden-joystick-2016-winners-have-been-announced.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Golden Joystick 2016 winners have been announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Metroid 2 Remake and Pokemon Uranium have both been quietly removed from the Game Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":111313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,1769,12286,2762,23339],"class_list":["post-111309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-controversy","tag-game-awards","tag-geoff-keighley","tag-nominated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111309","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111325,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111309\/revisions\/111325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}