Nominations are out for the Gayming Awards 2025, with Dragon Age: The Veilguard main the way in which with three nominations throughout the 12 classes.
The Gayming Awards, the world’s solely LGBTQ+ online game award present, broadcasts solely worldwide on World of Surprise’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, Concern 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 folks a month.
Six video games have been nominated for the celebrated Sport of the Yr together with Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Concern 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, Closing 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 embrace Finest LGBTQ+ Indie Sport – celebrating passionate work within the indie area – with nominees together with Beloved Rapture, Kitsune Tails and Sorry We’re Closed; and Finest 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 embrace The Abbey and Voda: The LGBT+ Psychological Well being App. Extra sponsors and supporters will probably be revealed nearer to the published in July.
Alongside video games, the Business Variety Award acknowledges constructive contributions to rising variety within the international video games trade with Blizzard Leisure, Code Coven, Restrict Break and Uncommon receiving nominations.
Nominees for the brand new Group Influence Award, sponsored by Fireshine Video games, which celebrates people or group teams who’ve made a major influence in supporting and uplifting LGBTQ+ avid gamers embrace Boston Gaymers, Charlotte Gaymers Community, NYC Gaymers, QueerVox, Stream for a Trigger and the*gamehers.
On this planet 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 embrace ChiChi, Ctrlaltquin, DataDave, GaymerONE1, halfmoonjoe, Juice Boxx, Negaoryx and PearlTeese.
Lastly, on this 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: Lifeless 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 obtained nominations.
A full checklist of classes and nominees will be discovered under. The winners of two classes, Gayming Icon and the LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class of 2025, sponsored by Logitech G, will probably 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 solely on WOW Presents Plus, becoming a member of the platform’s intensive catalog of award-winning authentic programming, together with all the worldwide Drag Race franchise, World of Surprise-produced documentary movies, reminiscent of The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Occasion 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 will probably 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, mentioned in an announcement, “We have an amazingly diverse roster of nominees for this year’s Gayming Awards. From AAA games to impactful LGBTQ+ indie games, there’s truly something for everyone to enjoy.”
Grey added, “Outside of the games themselves, we have an amazing line up of companies, people and community orgs who have all done amazing work over the past year to support, uplift and champion LGBTQ+ gamers, esports players and games industry workers. I’m also thrilled with the nominees we have in our content creator and voice acting categories, these are truly iconic people who add so much to the wonderful world of queer gaming. I cannot wait to see who the judges and the public choose to win”
The total checklist 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 Concern 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 Methods / Nintendo
o The Final of Us Half II Remastered – Naughty Canine / PlayStation
• Gayming Journal Readers’ Award
o Caravan SandWitch – Studio Airplane Toast / Pricey Villagers
o Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Bioware / EA
o Dragon’s Dogma 2 – Capcom
o Closing 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
• Business Variety Award
o Blizzard Leisure
o Code Coven
o Restrict Break
o Uncommon
• Group Influence 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
• Finest LGBTQ+ Character Award
o Bazz – Harmony – Firewalk Studios / PlayStation
o Micah-10 – Future 2: The Closing 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 Methods / Nintendo
• Finest LGBTQ+ Indie Sport Award
o Beloved Rapture – Rapturous Studio / 2 Left Thumbs
o Caravan SandWitch – Studio Airplane Toast / Pricey Villagers
o Concern 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 Discuss – 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
• Finest 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: Lifeless 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
