Gayming Journal has unveiled its nominations for the 2023 Gayming awards, which will likely be held on Broadway in April subsequent 12 months, celebrating success in LGBTQ+ gaming each on-screen and behind the scenes.
“I’m thrilled by the superb line up of nominees this 12 months. It’s an actual testomony to the work within the LGBTQ+ indie sport house that two of the three video games main the best way with nominations this 12 months are indies. I additionally love the quantity of range on present from trans-led tales, impactful characters, and builders from all around the globe. An enormous congratulations to everybody and I can’t wait to see who takes dwelling the Awards in April,” mentioned Gayming Awards founder Robin Grey.
Wylde Flowers, SIGNALIS, and the Borderlands franchise prepared the ground with three nominations every, whereas Cult of the Lamb, ValiDate: Struggling Singles in Your Space and Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers additionally garnered a number of nominations throughout the twelve classes.
For more information on the occasion, classes and nominees examine the occasion’s homepage right here.
Nonetheless… cellular lags behind
Regardless of the success in queer illustration in gaming this 12 months, cellular gaming is notably absent from the listing. As now we have highlighted beforehand, and as Robin Grey acknowledged throughout our interview with him earlier this 12 months, cellular sport notably lags behind different platforms when it comes to LGBTQ+ illustration.
“Of all of the content material that we write it is uncommon that we truly write something about cellular video games. I do not suppose that is by us being blindsided. It is as a result of there are fewer examples of LGBTQ video games on cellular platforms, and the predominantly LGBTQ video games, significantly the genuine ones, are tucked away within the indie house,” mentioned Grey.
“I feel that the fantastic thing about LGBTQ Indies is that they’ll inform the actual tales. They’ll inform the toughest tales that the larger corporations would shrink back from, and the way that then crosses over into the cellular sport house.”
Final week, we reported on all of the cellular bulletins made on the 2022 Sport Awards.
