The Gayming Awards announced today that it will air its 2024 event on June 25 as part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming event. The 2024 event, which will be produced by Nathan Noyes and Ian Devoglaer, features the Gayming Icon Award and the LGBTQ Streamer Rising Star Class of 2024 in addition to the main awards. Its sponsors include TikTok, Devolver Digital and Logitech G, with supporters including Humble Games, Zynga, Out Making Games, Qweerty Games and NYC Gaymers. It airs on IGN’s livestreaming channels, as well as Gayming Magazine’s Twitch, YouTube and TikTok channels.
This year, the Gayming Icon Award goes to Dungeons & Dragons lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford. As part of his work at Wizards of the Coast, Crawford designed the 2024 Player’s Handbook, contributed to the design of other sourcebook and co-authored other D&D books. In addition to the Icon Award, the Rising Star Class honors up-and-coming queer content creators. The 2024 Class includes Devoglaer, PearlTeese, SimplyAretha, Sukar Baba, and sinarynn. All of the streamers receive a prize package from Logitech.
Robin Gray, the Gayming Awards creator, said in a statement, “Despite the challenges that 2024 has presented to us and to the wider games industry, I’m thrilled we can finally announce the winners of the Gayming Awards 2024! I’m also honored to be able to celebrate our Gayming Icon 2024, Jeremy Crawford. He has done amazing work at Wizards of the Coast over the years to promote LGBTQ inclusion in Dungeons & Dragons and the fact it is D&D’s 50th anniversary makes it extra special. I’m also delighted to reveal and celebrate our Rising Star Class of awesome streamers whose stars are on the rise.”
The nominations for the 2024 Gayming Awards are as follows:
Game of the Year Award
- Baldur’s Gate 3 — Larian Studios
- Final Fantasy XVI — Square Enix
- Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — Nintendo
- Thirsty Suitors — Outer Loop Games / Annapurna Interactive
- Spider-Man 2 — Insomniac Studios / Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical — Humble Games / Summerfall Studios
Gayming Magazine Readers’ Award – sponsored by Devolver Digital
- Baldur’s Gate 3 — Larian Studios
- Final Fantasy XVI — Square Enix
- Goodbye Volcano High — KO_OP
- Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — Nintendo
- Tchia — Awaceb / Kepler Interactive
- This Bed We Made — Lowbirth Games
Industry Diversity Award
- Humble Games
- Larian Studios
- Latinx In Gaming
- Qweerty Gamers
- Roll7
- Women in Games International
Authentic Representation Award
- Baldur’s Gate 3 — Larian Studios
- Coral Island — Stairway Games / Humble Games
- Sims 4 — Maxis / EA Games
- The Expanse: A Telltale Games — Telltale Games / Deck 9
- Thirsty Suitors — Outer Loop Games / Annapurna Interactive
- This Bed We Made — Lowbirth Games
Best LGBTQ+ Character Award
- Aloy — Horizon: Forbidden West — Guerilla / Playstation Studios
- Dame Aylin — Baldur’s Gate 3 — Larian Studios
- Deon Lesange — Final Fantasy XVI — Square Enix
- Jala — Thirsty Suitors — Outer Loop Games / Annapurna Interactive
- Shadowheart — Baldur’s Gate 3 — Larian Studios
- Tchia — Tchia — Awaceb / Kepler Interactive
Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game Award – powered by TikTok
- Coral Island — Stairway Games / Humble Games
- In Stars and Time — insertdisc5
- Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical — Humble Games / Summerfall Studios
- Tchia — Awaceb / Kepler Interactive
- Thirsty Suitors — Outer Loop Games / Annapurna Interactive
- This Bed We Made — Lowbirth Games
LGBTQ+ Streamer of the Year Award
- Apothicdecay
- Eevoh
- Elix
- EspeSymone
- Halfmoonjoe
- Maisy
- Sheilur
- SpringSims
Best LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports Award
- Bailey McCann
- Bethany “Indyburgh” Pyles
- Cora Kennedy
- Emma “Emzii” Rose
- Slaypex / Kylie Gabor
LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment Moment of the Year
- Doctor Who: The Star Beast — Bad Wolf & BBC Studios
- Harley Quinn — DC Studios & Warner Bros Animation
- Nimona — Netflix & Annapurna Pictures
- Scott Pilgrim Takes Off — Netflix
- The Last of Us: Long, Long Time — HBO in association with Sony Pictures Television Studios, PlayStation Productions, Word Games, The Mighty Mint, and Naughty Dog
- The Legend of Vox Machina — Season 2 – Amazon Studios, Critical Role & Titmouse
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