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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:
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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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