Gayming Awards 2024: Baldur’s Gate 3 and Thirsty Suitors lead the winners

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 25, 2024
Updated June 18, 2025
3 min

The winners of the Gayming Awards 2024 have been announced, with Baldur’s Gate 3 winning
the top two awards of Game of the Year and Readers’ Award, as well as taking the Best LGBTQ
Character Award with Shadowheart.

Thirsty Suitors won the Best LGBTQ Indie Game Award and the Authentic Representation Award.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.