Nominations are out for the Gayming Awards 2025, with Dragon Age: The Veilguard main the best way with three nominations throughout the 12 classes.
The Gayming Awards, the world’s solely LGBTQ+ online game award present, broadcasts completely worldwide on World of Marvel’s WOW Presents Plus on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
Life is Unusual: Double Publicity, Dragon’s Dogma 2, The Final of Us Half II Remastered, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Yr Door, Worry the Highlight and Caravan SandWitch even have two nominations every throughout the classes. The organizer of the awards, Gayming Journal, reaches greater than three million individuals a month.
Six video games have been nominated for the distinguished Sport of the Yr together with Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Worry The Highlight, Life is Unusual: Double Publicity, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Yr Door, and The Final of Us Half II Remastered.
And Caravan SandWitch, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth, Life is Unusual: Double Publicity, and The Final of Us Half II Remastered have been nominated by the general public for the Gayming Journal Readers’ Award, the place the general public can vote for his or her favourite.
Different classes embody Greatest LGBTQ+ Indie Sport – celebrating passionate work within the indie house – with nominees together with Beloved Rapture, Kitsune Tails and Sorry We’re Closed; and Greatest LGBTQ+ Character with nominees together with Enterprise from Overwatch 2, Rook from Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Vivian from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Yr Door.
The Gayming Awards 2025 are sponsored by W Hollywood, Fireshine Video games, MyNerdLife and Homosexual Water. Supporters embody The Abbey and Voda: The LGBT+ Psychological Well being App. Extra sponsors and supporters might be revealed nearer to the printed in July.
Alongside video games, the Trade Variety Award acknowledges optimistic contributions to growing variety within the world video games trade with Blizzard Leisure, Code Coven, Restrict Break and Uncommon receiving nominations.
Nominees for the brand new Neighborhood Affect Award, sponsored by Fireshine Video games, which celebrates people or neighborhood teams who’ve made a major affect in supporting and uplifting LGBTQ+ avid gamers embody Boston Gaymers, Charlotte Gaymers Community, NYC Gaymers, QueerVox, Stream for a Trigger and the*gamehers.
On the earth of queer gaming content material creation, eight LGBTQ+ content material creators have been nominated with the general public and judges voting to decide on their favourite, the nominees embody ChiChi, Ctrlaltquin, DataDave, GaymerONE1, halfmoonjoe, Juice Boxx, Negaoryx and PearlTeese.
Lastly, on the planet of geek leisure, six TV exhibits have been nominated for LGBTQ+ Geek Leisure of the Yr, sponsored by MyNerdLife, with the general public voting for his or her favourite: Agatha All Alongside, Arcane: Season 2, Hazbin Resort, Heartstopper, Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 and The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Useless by Daylight. Plus, in a brand new class celebrating LGBTQ+ voice actors, Erika Ishii, JP Karliak, Katie Cofield, Mila Jam, Kieran Regan and Ciarán Unusual all acquired nominations.
A full record of classes and nominees might be discovered beneath. The winners of two classes, Gayming Icon and the LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class of 2025, sponsored by Logitech G, might be revealed in June forward of the Awards.
Public voting is now open in 4 of those 12 classes – to have your say, head to gaymingawards.com.
The Gayming Awards will premiere Tuesday, July 8, 2025 completely on WOW Presents Plus, becoming a member of the platform’s in depth catalog of award-winning unique programming, together with the whole worldwide Drag Race franchise, World of Marvel-produced documentary movies, similar to The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Social gathering Monster, in addition to licensed content material together with the not too long ago premiered scripted comedy I Hate Folks, Folks Hate Me.
Highlights from the Awards might be shared throughout Gayming’s social media accounts the place followers can see the important thing moments unfold and successes celebrated.
Robin Grey, Gayming Journal & Gayming Awards founder, stated in a press release, “We’ve got an amazingly various roster of nominees for this yr’s Gayming Awards. From AAA video games to impactful LGBTQ+ indie video games, there’s really one thing for everybody to get pleasure from.”
Grey added, “Outdoors of the video games themselves, we have now a tremendous line up of firms, individuals and neighborhood orgs who’ve all carried out superb work over the previous yr to help, uplift and champion LGBTQ+ avid gamers, esports gamers and video games trade staff. I’m additionally thrilled with the nominees we have now in our content material creator and voice performing classes, these are really iconic individuals who add a lot to the great world of queer gaming. I can not wait to see who the judges and the general public select to win”
The complete record of nominees for the Gayming Awards 2025 are as follows:
• Sport of the Yr
o Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Bioware / EA
o Dragon’s Dogma 2 – Capcom
o Worry the Highlight – Cozy Sport Friends / Blumhouse Video games
o Life is Unusual: Double Publicity – Deck 9 / Sq. Enix
o Paper Mario: The Thousand-Yr Door – Clever Techniques / Nintendo
o The Final of Us Half II Remastered – Naughty Canine / PlayStation
• Gayming Journal Readers’ Award
o Caravan SandWitch – Studio Aircraft Toast / Pricey Villagers
o Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Bioware / EA
o Dragon’s Dogma 2 – Capcom
o Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth – Sq. Enix
o Life is Unusual: Double Publicity – Deck 9 / Sq. Enix
o The Final of Us Half II Remastered – Naughty Canine / PlayStation
• Trade Variety Award
o Blizzard Leisure
o Code Coven
o Restrict Break
o Uncommon
• Neighborhood Affect Award – sponsored by Fireshine Video games
o Boston Gaymers
o Charlotte Gaymers Community
o NYC Gaymers
o QueerVox
o The*gamehers
o Stream for a Trigger
• Greatest LGBTQ+ Character Award
o Bazz – Harmony – Firewalk Studios / PlayStation
o Micah-10 – Future 2: The Ultimate Form – Bungie / PlayStation
o Michelle – Sorry We’re Closed – à la mode video games / Akupara Video games
o Rook – Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Bioware / EA
o Enterprise – Overwatch 2 – Blizzard Leisure
o Vivian – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Yr Door – Clever Techniques / Nintendo
• Greatest LGBTQ+ Indie Sport Award
o Beloved Rapture – Rapturous Studio / 2 Left Thumbs
o Caravan SandWitch – Studio Aircraft Toast / Pricey Villagers
o Worry the Highlight – Cozy Sport Friends / Blumhouse Video games
o Kitsune Tails – Kitsune Video games / Midboss
o Sorry We’re Closed – à la mode video games / Akupara Video games
o Tavern Speak – Mild Troll Leisure
• LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Yr Award
o Ciarán Unusual
o Erika Ishii
o JP Karliak
o Katie Cofield
o Kieran Regan
o Mila Jam
• LGBTQ+ Content material Creator of the Yr Award
o ChiChi
o Ctrlaltquin
o DataDave
o GaymerONE1
o halfmoonjoe
o Juice Boxx
o Negaoryx
o PearlTeese
• Greatest LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports Award
o Bailey McCann
o Queer Girls of Esports
o SonicFox
o Steve Arhancet
• LGBTQ+ Geek Leisure of the Yr Award – sponsored by MyNerdLife
o Agatha All Alongside – Marvel Studios
o Arcane: Season 2 – Netflix
o Hazbin Resort – SpindleHorse Toons / Amazon Studios
o Heartstopper – Netflix
o Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 – AMC
o The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Useless by Daylight – Shudder
• Gayming Icon Award
o To be revealed in June 2025
• LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class
o To be revealed in June 2025
