LOS ANGELES: Nominations have been revealed for the Gayming Awards 2025 with Dragon Age: The Veilguard leading the way with three nominations across the 12 categories. The world’s only LGBTQ+ video game award show, broadcasts exclusively worldwide on World of Wonder’s WOW Presents Plus on Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Dragon's Dogma 2, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Fear the Spotlight and Caravan SandWitch also have two nominations each across the categories.
Six games have been nominated for the prestigious Game of the Year including Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Fear The Spotlight, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and The Last of Us Part II Remastered. While Caravan SandWitch, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, and The Last of Us Part II Remastered have been nominated by the public for the Gayming Magazine Readers’ Award, where the public can vote for their favorite.
Other categories include Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game - celebrating passionate work in the indie space - with nominees including Beloved Rapture, Kitsune Tails and Sorry We’re Closed; and Best LGBTQ+ Character with nominees including Venture from Overwatch 2, Rook from Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Vivian from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
The Gayming Awards 2025 are sponsored by W Hollywood, Fireshine Games, MyNerdLife and Gay Water. Supporters include The Abbey and Voda: The LGBT+ Mental Health App. More sponsors and supporters will be revealed closer to the broadcast in July.
Alongside games, the Industry Diversity Award acknowledges positive contributions to increasing diversity in the global games industry with Blizzard Entertainment, Code Coven, Limit Break and Rare receiving nominations. Nominees for the new Community Impact Award, sponsored by Fireshine Games, which celebrates individuals or community groups who have made a significant impact in supporting and uplifting LGBTQ+ gamers include Boston Gaymers, Charlotte Gaymers Network, NYC Gaymers, QueerVox, Stream for a Cause and the*gamehers.
In the world of queer gaming content creation, eight LGBTQ+ content creators have been nominated with the public and judges voting to choose their favorite, the nominees include ChiChi, Ctrlaltquin, DataDave, GaymerONE1, halfmoonjoe, Juice Boxx, Negaoryx and PearlTeese.
Finally, in the world of geek entertainment, six TV shows have been nominated for LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment of the Year, sponsored by MyNerdLife, with the public voting for their favorite: Agatha All Along, Arcane: Season 2, Hazbin Hotel, Heartstopper, Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 and The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Dead by Daylight. Plus, in a new category celebrating LGBTQ+ voice actors, Erika Ishii, JP Karliak, Katie Cofield, Mila Jam, Kieran Regan and Ciarán Strange all received nominations.
A full list of categories and nominees can be found below. The winners of two categories, Gayming Icon and the LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class of 2025, sponsored by Logitech G, will be revealed in June ahead of the Awards.
Public voting is now OPEN in four of these 12 categories – to have your say, head to gaymingawards.com.
The Gayming Awards will premiere Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 exclusively on WOW Presents Plus, joining the platform’s extensive catalogue of award-winning original programming, including the entire international Drag Race franchise, World of Wonder-produced documentary films, such as The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Party Monster, as well as licensed content including the recently premiered scripted comedy I Hate People, People Hate Me.
Highlights from the Awards will be shared across Gayming’s social media accounts where fans can see the key moments unfold and successes celebrated.
Robin Gray, Gayming Magazine & Gayming Awards Founder, said: “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. 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!”
For more information on everything Gayming Awards, head to gaymingawards.com and follow Gayming Magazine on all socials @gaymingmag
The full list of nominees for the Gayming Awards 2025 are as follows:
- Game of the Year
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Bioware / EA
- Dragon's Dogma 2 – Capcom
- Fear the Spotlight – Cozy Game Pals / Blumhouse Games
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure – Deck Nine / Square Enix
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door – Intelligent Systems / Nintendo
- The Last of Us Part II Remastered – Naughty Dog / PlayStation
- Gayming Magazine Readers’ Award
- Caravan SandWitch – Studio Plane Toast / Dear Villagers
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Bioware / EA
- Dragon's Dogma 2 – Capcom
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth – Square Enix
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure – Deck Nine / Square Enix
- The Last of Us Part II Remastered – Naughty Dog / PlayStation
- Industry Diversity Award
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Code Coven
- Limit Break
- Community Impact Award – sponsored by Fireshine Games
- Boston Gaymers
- Charlotte Gaymers Network
- NYC Gaymers
- Stream for a Cause
- Best LGBTQ+ Character Award
- Bazz – Concord – Firewalk Studios / PlayStation
- Micah-10 - Destiny 2: The Final Shape – Bungie / PlayStation
- Michelle - Sorry We're Closed – à la mode games / Akupara Games
- Rook - Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Bioware / EA
- Venture - Overwatch 2 – Blizzard Entertainment
- Vivian - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door – Intelligent Systems / Nintendo
- Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game Award
- Beloved Rapture – Rapturous Studio / 2 Left Thumbs
- Caravan SandWitch – Studio Plane Toast / Dear Villagers
- Fear the Spotlight – Cozy Game Pals / Blumhouse Games
- Kitsune Tails – Kitsune Games / Midboss
- Sorry We're Closed – à la mode games / Akupara Games
- Tavern Talk – Gentle Troll Entertainment
- LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year Award
- Ciarán Strange
- Erika Ishii
- JP Karliak
- Katie Cofield
- Kieran Regan
- Mila Jam
- LGBTQ+ Content Creator of the Year Award
- Juice Boxx
- Negaoryx
- Best LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports Award
- Bailey McCann
- Queer Women of Esports
- Steve Arhancet
- LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment of the Year Award - sponsored by MyNerdLife
- Agatha All Along – Marvel Studios
- Arcane: Season 2 – Netflix
- Hazbin Hotel – SpindleHorse Toons / Amazon Studios
- – Netflix
- Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 – AMC
- The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Dead by Daylight – Shudder
- Gayming Icon Award
- To be revealed in June 2025
- LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class
- To be revealed in June 2025
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Notes:
About Gayming Awards
The Gayming Awards are the world’s first and only award ceremony celebrating all that is great about LGBTQ+ video gaming. Launched in 2021, the Awards set out to celebrate the achievements within the global gaming culture that represent and champion the LGBTQ+ experience.
About Gayming Magazine
Gayming Magazine is the home of queer geek culture. Founded in 2019, it has quickly risen to be the leading LGBTQ+ website for all things video games, comics, anime, and general queer fandom, reaching over 3 million people globally per month. Find out more by visiting our website, or by following our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages.
About World of Wonder:
World of Wonder (WOW) has reshaped international pop culture, earning 33 Emmys, inspiring two Oscars, creating global network WOW Presents Plus across 190 territories, and bringing drag culture to the world stage via RuPaul’s Drag Race and DragCon. SVOD WOW Presents Plus, the exclusive home to the global Drag Race franchise and hundreds of WOW Original series, saw 35M hours of content watched in 2023 with 77% subscriber growth in the same year. WOW’s pioneering television portfolio includes other smash-hit franchises like Million Dollar Listing. Their film division WOW Docs produces groundbreaking documentaries including Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, Party Monster, and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. WOW also operates YouTube channel WOWPresents, music label World of Wonder Records, the WOW Podcast Network, and year-round international live events. Co-founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have been profiled in Variety’s Reality TV Impact Report and Hollywood Reporter’s Most Powerful Producers in Unscripted. Honors for their trailblazing work include the IDA Pioneer Award, Realscreen’s Global 100 list, Banff’s Impact Award, and the OUT 100. In 2022, World of Wonder was ranked #2 among film and TV powerhouses in Fast Company’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.
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