Gayming Magazine has revealed the winners of the 2025 Gayming Awards, with Bioware’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard taking home the trophy for Game of the Year. Rebecca Heineman won the Gayming Icon Award for their contributions to gaming’s LGBTQ+ community. The show aired on World of Wonder’s WOW Presents Plus, and was hosted by DEERE and MiladyConfetti, with an appearance by RuPaul’s Drag Race star Morgan McMichaels.
In addition to Game of the Year, Dragon Age: The Veilguard took home Best LGBTQ+ Character for its protagonist, Rook; and Erika Ishii, one of Rook’s voice actors, took home LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year. Gayming Magazine also inducted four streamers to its 2025 Rising Star Class for having made “significant contributions to the LGBTQ+ world within the gaming space.”
Robin Gray, founder of Gayming Magazine and the Gayming Awards, said in a statement, “Every year I’m honored to uplift and celebrate creators, games makers and industry workers through our Awards. 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. Now more than ever we need to be supporting each other, championing each other, and defending each other.”
Here is the complete list of winners for The Gayming Awards 2025:
- Game of the Year Award — Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare / EA
- Gayming Magazine Readers’ Award (sponsored by RuPaul’s Drag Race Match Queen) — The Last of Us Part II: Remastered, Naughty Dog / PlayStation
- Gayming Icon Award — Rebecca Heineman
- LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year Award — Erika Ishii
- Industry Diversity Award – Code Coven
- Community Impact Award (sponsored by Fireshine Games) — Stream for a Cause
- Best LGBTQ+ Character Award — Rook, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare / EA
- Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game Award — Kitsune Tails, Kitsune Games / MidBoss
- LGBTQ+ Content Creator of the Year Award — PearlTeese
- LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class of 2025 (sponsored by Elgato) — BoyeFran, Bvssykatdoll, Mynxie666 and WillJinkies
- LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports Award (sponsored by the Federation of Gay Games) — Bailey McCann
- LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment of the Year Award — Arcane: Season 2, Netflix
