The winners of the Gayming Awards 2025 have been announced, with Dragon Age: The Veilguard taking home Game of the Year and Best LGBTQ+ Character for Rook.
Hosted at The Abbey in West Hollywood yesterday (July 8), Code Coven took home the Industry Diversity Award, while Stream for a Cause won the Community Impact Award.
The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered received the Gayming Magazine Readers’ Award, while Erika Ishii received the Best LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year Award for her portrayal of Rook in Dragon Age.
This year’s Gayming Awards raised money for the Gayming Foundation, a new charity founded to “uplift and empower LGBTQ+ games workers and fans to affect change, celebrate inclusivity, and drive forward representation in games”.
“Every year I’m honoured to uplift and celebrate creators, games makers and industry workers through our awards,” said Gayming Magazine and Gayming Awards founder Robin Gray.
“This year’s winners represent a wonderfully diverse group of people, all of whom are working to make our industry better in their own way.
“Whether that’s creating games with storylines and characters that represent us, creating communities and holding space for LGBTQ+ people to be themselves, or by changing the industry piece by piece to be more inclusive.”
Gray concluded: “Now more than ever we need to be supporting each other, championing each other, and defending each other. Our partnership with World of Wonder this year has helped us do this in a bigger and better way, and I couldn’t be more grateful and proud.”
Here’s the full list of winners:
- Game of the Year Award: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (BioWare, EA)
- Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game Award: Kitsune Tails (Kitsune Games, MidBoss)
- Industry Diversity Award: Code Coven
- Community Impact Award: Stream for a Cause
- Gayming Magazine Readers’ Award: The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered (Naughty Dog/PlayStation)
- Best LGBTQ+ Character Award: Rook – Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Best LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year Award: Erika Ishii
- LGBTQ+ Content Creator of the Year Award: PearlTeese
- LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports Award: Bailey McCann
- LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment of the Year Award: Arcane: Season 2 (Netflix)
- Gayming Icon Award: Rebecca Heineman
- LGBTQ+ Streaming Rising Star Class of 2025: BoyeFran, Bvssykatdoll, Mynxie666, and WillJinkies
