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From 2014 to 2016, The Game Awards featured a "Best Fan Creation" category. The 2014 winner was "Twitch Plays Pokémon" (a social experiment featuring a crowdsourced attempt to play through various Pokémon games), and the 2015 winner was "Portal Stories: Mel" (a modification of Portal 2). During 2016, however, two of the nominees for the category were removed prior to the show's airing: AM2R (an unofficial remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus) and Pokémon Uranium (a fan-made video game based on the Pokémon series). During a stream prior to the event, host Geoff Keighley explained that this was due to the fangames not being legally cleared by Nintendo, who owned the rights to the games they were based on. Additionally, "Best Fan Creation" would end up being the only category to not have its winner (Enderal: The Shards of Order, a conversion mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) announced during the ceremony itself.
2014 nominees:
https://www.polygon.com/2014/11/21/7259309/game-awards-2014-nominees
2015 nominees:
https://www.polygon.com/2015/11/13/9728874/the-game-awards-2015-nominees
2016 nominees:
https://www.vg247.com/the-game-awards-2016-doom-overwatch-more-up-for-game-of-the-year-heres-the-full-list-nominees
Nominee removals:
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/1590200/why-fanmade-games-like-pokemon-uranium-wont-be-at-the-2016-game-awards
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/168862-The-Game-Awards-Drops-Pokemon-Uranium-AM2R
Category removal:
http://twinfinite.net/2016/12/best-fan-creation-2016-game-awards/
https://www.polygon.com/2014/11/21/7259309/game-awards-2014-nominees
2015 nominees:
https://www.polygon.com/2015/11/13/9728874/the-game-awards-2015-nominees
2016 nominees:
https://www.vg247.com/the-game-awards-2016-doom-overwatch-more-up-for-game-of-the-year-heres-the-full-list-nominees
Nominee removals:
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/1590200/why-fanmade-games-like-pokemon-uranium-wont-be-at-the-2016-game-awards
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/168862-The-Game-Awards-Drops-Pokemon-Uranium-AM2R
Category removal:
http://twinfinite.net/2016/12/best-fan-creation-2016-game-awards/
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