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Gayming Awards 2023: Where and how to watch

The Gayming Awards 2023 is a week away, promising an event of a lifetime with fabulous awards, exciting entertainment, and the guarantee of focusing on LGBTQ+ developers, publishers, and the games they make.

But with such a thrilling event so near, there’s just one question we know is on your minds: where and how can we watch the Gayming Awards 2023?

Like in previous years, The Gayming Awards will be available to watch on twitch.tv/gaymingmag. The awards will take place on April 24, 3 pm ET/12 pm PT/8 pm BST. So, no matter where you are, you can sit and watch the hottest, the queerest, and the most fabulous show of your life.

Here are all of the brilliant nominees who have a chance of taking away one of their very own trophies at the Gayming Awards 2023.

Game of the Year

  • Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers – Pqube & Fiction Factory Games
  • Cult of the Lamb – Devolver Digital & Massive Monster
  • Elden Ring – FromSoftware & Bandai Namco
  • God of War Ragnarök – SIE Santa Monica Studio

Gayming Magazine Readers Award – sponsored by Devolver Digital

  • Cult of the Lamb – Devolver Digital & Massive Monster
  • Disney Dreamlight Valley – Gameloft
  • Elden Ring – FromSoftware & Bandai Namco
  • Ghostwire Tokyo – Bethesda Softworks
  • Horizon Forbidden West – Sony Interactive Entertainment
  • Stray – Annapurna Interactive & Blue Twelve Studio
  • Tunic – Finji
  • Wylde Flowers – Studio Drydock

Best LGBTQ Indie

  • Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers – Pqube & Fiction Factory Games
  • Butterfly Soup 2 – Brianna Lei
  • SIGNALIS – rose-engine & Humble Games
  • ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area – Veritable Joy
  • We Are OFK – Team OFK
  • Wylde Flowers – Studio Drydock

LGBTQ Streamer of the Year – sponsored by Streamlabs

  • DragTrashly
  • Espé Symoné
  • Fox Queen
  • Gothika Love
  • HiDro
  • psoymilk
  • Sammy M Jay
  • SuperButterBuns
  • Toph
  • Willow

Authentic Representation Award

  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist – Northway Games & Finji
  • Saints Row – Deep Silver
  • SIGNALIS – rose-engine & Humble Games
  • Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – Gearbox & 2K
  • ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area – Veritable Joy
  • We Are OFK ­– Team OFK

Best LGBTQ Character – sponsored by Rocksteady Studios

  • Bones Three-Wood – Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands– Gearbox & 2K
  • Bridget – Guilty Gear Strive – Arc System Works
  • Catalyst – Apex Legends – Respawn & EA
  • ELSTER – SIGNALIS – rose-engine & Humble Games
  • Lor – New Tales from the Borderlands – Gearbox & 2K
  • Tara Wylde – Wylde Flowers – Studio Drydock

Industry Diversity Award

  • Code Coven
  • GaymerX
  • Girls Run These Worlds
  • GLITCH
  • Qweerty Gamers

Best LGBTQ Contribution to Esports Award

  • Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association
  • Team Overture
  • Valorant Game Changers
  • XSET

Best LGBTQ Tabletop Game of the Year Award

  • Adventuring with Pride – A Queero’s Journey – Jack Dixon
  • Pathfinder Lost Omens – Paizo
  • Pride Across the Multiverse – Wizards of the Coast
  • Tower of the Soul – Awfully Queer Heroes

Best LGBTQ Comic Book Moment Award

  • Marvel’s Voices ICEMAN – Luciano Vecchio & Marvel Comics
  • Rockstar and Softboy – Image Comics
  • Superman: Son of Kal-El – DC Comics
  • Young Men in Love – Joe Glass and Matt Miner (editors) & A Wave Blue World

For more information about the Gayming Awards 2023, head to gaymingmag.com/awards.

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