Dragon Age: The Veilguard leads Gayming Awards 2025 nominations BioWare's action RPG nominated for Game of the Year, alongside titles including Dragon's Dogma 2, Fear the Spotlight, and Life is Strange: Double Exposure Image credit: BioWare/Electronic Arts News by Sophie McEvoy Staff Writer Published on April 17, 2025 Nominations for the fifth annual Gayming Awards have been announced, with Dragon Age: The Veilguard picking up three across 12 categories including Game of the Year. Life Is Strange: Double Exposure, Dragon's Dogma 2, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Fear the Spotlight, and Caravan SandWitch all have two nominations across the categories. Other awards include Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game, Best LGBTQ+ Character Award, LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year Award alongside the Industry Diversity Award and the Community Impact Award. Winners of the Gayming Icon Award and the LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class award will be revealed in June 2025. The awards ceremony will take place on July 8 on streaming service World of Wonder's WOW Presents Plus. "We have an amazingly diverse roster of nominees for this year's Gayming Awards," said Gayming Magazine & Gaming Awards founder Robin Gray. "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 lineup of companies, people, and community organisations who have all done amazing work over the past year to support, uplift, and champion LGBTQ+ gamers, esports players, and games industry workers." Gray continued: "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." Here all the full list of nominations: Game of the Year Dragon Age: The Veilguard (BioWare/Electronic Arts) 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 2 Remastered (Naughty Dog/PlayStation) Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game Award Beloved Rapture (Rapturous Studio/2 Left Thumbs) Caravan SandWitch (Studio Plane Toast/Dear Villagers) Fear the Spotlight Kitsune Tails (Kitsune Games/Midboss) Sorry We're Closed (À la mode Games/Akapura Games) Tavern Talk (Gentle Troll Entertainment) Gayming Magazine Readers' Award Caravan SandWitch Dragon Age: The Veilguard Dragon's Dogma 2 Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (Square Enix) Life is Strange: Double Exposure The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered Industry Diversity Award Blizzard Entertainment Code Coven Limit Break Rare Community Impact Award – sponsored by Fireshine Games Boston Gaymers Charlotte Gaymers Network NYC Gaymers QueerVox The*gamehers 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 Rook – Dragon Age: The Veilguard Venture – Overwatch 2 (Blizzard Entertainment) Vivian – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door 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 ChiChi Ctrlaltquin DataDave GaymerONE1 halfmoonjoe Juice Boxx Negaoryx PearlTeese Best LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports Award Bailey McCann Queer Women of Esports SonicFox 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) Heartstopper (Netflix) Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 (AMC) The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Dead by Daylight (Shudder)