Recipients of the 2024 Gaming Awards have been revealed, celebrating LGBTQ+ illustration in video video games, with Larian Studios and its 2023 RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 successful probably the most awards, together with Game of the Year.
Revealed on-line throughout a digital ceremony, Baldur’s Gate 3 took residence Game of the Year, beating out video games corresponding to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Final Fantasy 16, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for the award.
As talked about beforehand, this yr’s Gayming Awards noticed Larian Studios nominated six occasions in 5 classes and take residence an award in virtually each class. This contains the Belgian-based studio successful the Gayming Magazine’s Readers’ Award and the Best LGBTQ+ Character award.
Additional award winners embody Outer Loop Games’ journey recreation Thirsty Suitors, which was nominated 4 occasions throughout 4 classes, together with Game of the Year, and received two. Latinx In Gaming received the business Diversity Award. The third episode within the first season of HBO’s The Last of Us sequence additionally received LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment Moment of the Year.
Five new streamers had been additionally inducted into the Streamer Rising Star. The Gayming Ambassadors chosen these creators as a result of all 5 of them “made unbelievable strides of their streaming profession during the last yr and have made vital contributions to the LGBTQ+ world throughout the gaming area.”
“2023 and the beginning of 2024 was an extremely robust yr for the video games business, and we now have actually felt the knock-on impact of that,” stated Gayming Magazine and the Gayming Awards founder Robin Gray wrote in a press launch. “I’m delighted we had been in a position to lastly have fun the achievements of the LGBTQ gaming neighborhood. Each yr I’m thrilled at what new tales of success we unearth.”
You can try the total record of Gayming Awards winners beneath.
Gayming Awards 2024 Winners:
Game of the Year Award
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: 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
Gayming Icon Award
- Jeremy Crawford – Wizards of the Coast – WINNER
Industry Diversity Award
- WINNER: Latinx In Gaming
- Humble Games
- Larian Studios
- Qweerty Gamers
- Roll7
- Women in Games International
Authentic Representation Award
- WINNER: Thirsty Suitors – Outer Loop Games / Annapurna Interactive
- Baldur’s Gate 3 – Larian Studios
- Coral Island – Stairway Games / Humble Games
- The Sims 4 – Maxis / EA Games
- The Expanse: A Telltale Games – Telltale Games / Deck 9
- This Bed We Made – Lowbirth Games
Best LGBTQ+ Character Award
- WINNER: Shadowheart – Baldur’s Gate 3 – Larian Studios
- Aloy – Horizon: Forbidden West – Guerilla / Playstation Studios
- Dame Aylin – Baldur’s Gate 3 – Larian Studios
- Dion Lesage – Final Fantasy XVI – Square Enix
- Jala – Thirsty Suitors – Outer Loop Games / Annapurna Interactive
- Tchia – Tchia – Awaceb / Kepler Interactive
Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game Award
- WINNER: Thirsty Suitors – Outer Loop Games / Annapurna Interactive
- Coral Island – Stairway Games / Humble Games
- In Stars and Time – insertdisc5
- Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical – Humble Games / Summerfall Studios
- Tchia – Awaceb / Kepler Interactive
- This Bed We Made – Lowbirth Games
LGBTQ+ Streamer of the Year Award
- WINNER: SpringSims
- Apothicdecay
- Eevoh
- Elix
- EspeSymone
- Halfmoonjoe
- Maisy
- Sheilur
Best LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports Award
- WINNER: Emma “Emzii” Rose
- Bailey McCann
- Bethany “Indyburgh” Pyles
- Cora Kennedy
- Slaypex / Kylie Gabor
LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class of 2024
- DEVOGLAER
- PearlTeese
- SimplyAretha
- Sinarynn
- Sukar Baba
LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment Moment of the Year
- WINNER: The Last of Us: Long, Long Time – HBO
- 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 Legend of Vox Machina – Season 2 – Amazon Studios, Critical Role & Titmouse
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