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昨年12月に、今年度の優れたLGBTQ+ゲームを選出する第3回「Gayming Awards」の部門別ノミネート作品がアナウンスされ話題となりましたが、昨晩予定通り“Gayming Awards 2023”の授賞式が開催され、信者との結婚システムを導入したMassive Monsterの可愛いカルト教団運営ゲーム「Cult of the Lamb」が見事GOTYを獲得したことが明らかになりました。

BlueTwelve Studioのサイバーパンク猫ゲーム「Stray」がGayming Magazine読者賞を、Studio Drydockが手がけたアドベンチャー「Wylde Flowers」がインディー賞を、「New Tales from the Borderlands」で男性となったローレライがベストキャラクターを、2022年7月にパンセクシュアルであることをカミングアウトしたお馴染みAshly BurchがGayming Icon Awardをそれぞれ獲得した部門別の受賞作品は以下からご確認ください。

■ Game of the Year Award

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

■ Gayming Magazine Readers’ Award – sponsored by Devolver Digital

• [受賞] Stray – Annapurna Interactive & Blue Twelve Studio
• 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
• Tunic – Finji
• Wylde Flowers – Studio Drydock

■ Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game Award

• [受賞] Wylde Flowers – Studio Drydock
• 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

■ LGBTQ+ Streamer of the Year Award – sponsored by Streamlabs

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

■ Authentic Representation Award

• [受賞] I Was a Teenage Exoconologist – 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 Award – sponsored by Rocksteady Studios

• [受賞] Lor – New Tales from the Borderlands – Gearbox & 2K
• 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
• Tara Wylde – Wylde Flowers – Studio Drydock

■ Industry Diversity Award

• [受賞] GLITCH
• Code Coven
• GaymerX
• Girls Run These Worlds
• Qweerty Gamers

■ Best LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports Award

• [受賞] XSET
• Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association
• Team Overture
• Valorant Game Changers

■ Best LGBTQ+ Tabletop Game of the Year Award

• [受賞] 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

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

■ Gayming Icon Award – sponsored by Facebook Gaming

• [受賞] Ashly Burch

■ LGBTQ+ Streamer Rising Star Class of ’23 – sponsored by Logitech G

• BetweenTwoGays (Jayce & Ryan)
• Blobarella
• itsOnlyVega
• MadiDuVernay
• Marisol Lords
• TheJustRyan