The nominations for the fifth annual gayming award have been announced, with Dragon Age: The Veilguard collecting three in 12 categories, including the game of the year.
Life is strange: Double Exposure, Dragon’s Dogma 2, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, Paper Mario: The Billing Door, Fear The Spotlight and Caravan Sandwitch have two nominations in the categories.
Other awards include the best LGBTQ+ Indie game, the Best LGBTQ+ Award, the LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year award together with the industry diversity award and the impact community award.
The winners of the Gayming Icon Prize and the LGBTQ+ Streaming Star Class Award will be revealed in June 2025.
The awards ceremony will take place on July 8 at the World of Wonder’s Wow Presentation Plus.
“We have an incredibly diverse list of nominees for this year’s Gayming Awards,” said the founder of the Gayming magazine and gaming awards, Robin Gray. “From the AAA games to the shocking LGBTQ+ independent games, there really is something for everyone to enjoy.
“Outside the games itself, we have an incredible line of community companies, people and organizations that have done incredible work during the past year to support, raise and defend LGBTQ+players, players of electronic sports and workers of the play industry.”
Gray continued: “I am also delighted with the nominees we have in our creator of content and categories of voice performance, these are truly iconic people who add a lot to the wonderful world of queer games.”
Here the whole complete list of nominations:
game of the year
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Bioware/Electronic Arts)
- Dragon’s Dogma 2 (Capcom)
- Fear The Spotlight (Welcoming game Games/Blumhouse Games)
- Life is strange: double exposure (Mazo Nine/Square Enix)
- Paper Mario: The Thousand Years Gate (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
- The last of us, part, 2 remastered (mischievous dog/playstation)
Best LGBTQ+ game Indie Award
- Beloved Raptus (Raptous Study/2 left thumbs)
- Caravan Sandwitch (study airplane toast/estimated villagers)
- Fear the focus of attention
- Kitsune Tails (Kitsune Games/Midboss)
- Sorry, we are closed (mode/akapura games)
- Tavern Talk (Gentle Troll Entertainment)
Gayming magazine readers award
- Caravan sandwitch
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (Square Enix)
- Life is strange: double exposure
- The last part of us, part 2, remastered
Industry Diversity Award
- Blizzard entertainment
- Code code
- Limit rupture
- Strange
Community Impact Award: Sponsored by Fireshine Games
- Boston Gaymers
- Charlotte Gaymers Network
- NYC Gaymers
- Queervox
- The*gamehers
- Transmit
Prize to the Best LGBTQ+ character award
- Bazz – Concord (Firewalk Studios/PlayStation)
- Micah-10-Destiny 2: The final form (Bungie/PlayStation)
- Michelle – Sorry, we are closed
- Rook – Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Venture – Overwatch 2 (Blizzard Entertainment)
- Vivian-Paper Mario: The door of a thousand years
LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year award
- They will be strange
- Erika Ishii
- JP Karliak
- Katie Cofield
- Kieran Regan
- MILA JAM
LGBTQ+ content creator of the year
- Chichi
- Ctrlaraltquín
- Datadave
- Gaymerone1
- Halfmoonjoe
- Juice Boxx
- Nataoryx
- Perlteés
Best LGBTQ+ contribution to the ESports Award
- Bailey McCann
- Queer women of eSports
- Sonicfox
- Steve Arhancet
LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment of the Year Award – Sponsored by MyNERDLife
- Agatha all the time (Marvel Studios)
- Arcano: Season 2 (Netflix)
- Hazbin Hotel (Spindlehorse Toons/Amazon Studios)
- Heartstopper (Netflix)
- Interview with The Vampire: Season 2 (AMC)
- Boulet brothers Dragula: Dead By Daylight (Shudder)