Gayming Journal has unveiled its nominations for the 2023 Gayming awards, which will probably be held on Broadway in April subsequent yr, celebrating success in LGBTQ+ gaming each on-screen and behind the scenes.
“I’m thrilled by the superb line up of nominees this yr. It’s an actual testomony to the work within the LGBTQ+ indie recreation area that two of the three video games main the best way with nominations this yr are indies. I additionally love the quantity of variety 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 cleared the path 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 test the occasion’s homepage right here.
Nonetheless… cell lags behind
Regardless of the success in queer illustration in gaming this yr, cell gaming is notably absent from the checklist. As we’ve highlighted beforehand, and as Robin Grey acknowledged throughout our interview with him earlier this yr, cell recreation 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 really write something about cell video games. I do not assume that is via us being blindsided. It is as a result of there are fewer examples of LGBTQ video games on cell platforms, and the predominantly LGBTQ video games, significantly the genuine ones, are tucked away within the indie area,” mentioned Grey.
“I believe that the great thing about LGBTQ Indies is that they will inform the actual tales. They will inform the toughest tales that the larger corporations would draw back from, and the way that then crosses over into the cell recreation area.”
Final week, we reported on all of the cell bulletins made on the 2022 Recreation Awards.
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
// init the FB JS SDK FB.init({ appId : 250161755076617, // App ID //channelUrl : '//'+window.location.hostname+'/channel.php', // Path to your Channel File status : true, // check login status cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session xfbml : true // parse XFBML });
FB._PG = { url: "/useractions/loginfb/", response: "allowed",
// Common handler to fetch FB details and reload the page process: function(me){ $.post( FB._PG.url, { username: me.username, uname: me.name, uid: me.id, uimg: 'https://graph.facebook.com/' + me.id + '/picture?type=large' }) .done(function(xml){ if ( $("status", xml).text() == FB._PG.response ) window.location.reload(); else alert('Error: Something bad just happened. Our tech department has been notified. Please try again later.');
}) .fail(function(xml){
alert("Error: something wasn't right there, please try again.");
}); },
// Used by event subscriptions to handle the response handleResponse: function(response){ if (response.authResponse) { FB.api('/me', function(me){ if (me.name) FB._PG.process(me); }); } },
post: function(text, image){ image = image || $("#fb-image").attr("src"); FB.ui({ method: 'feed', display: 'popup', link: 'https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/80413/gayming-awards-unveils-nominees-for-2023-ceremony/', description: text, picture: image }); } };
FB.Event.subscribe('auth.statusChange', FB._PG.handleResponse);
FB.Event.subscribe('edge.create', function(response) { $.post('/ajax/social-links/', { site: 'facebook' }); }); };
(function(d, s, id){ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));