The Best Handheld Game Award recognizes the overall best game commercially released on any handheld platform during 2007.

9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2008)

Recipient

• God Of War: Chains Of Olympus (Ready At Dawn Studios)

Nominees

• Advance Wars: Days Of Ruin (Intelligent Systems)
• Echochrome (SCE Japan)
• Patapon (Pyramid/SCE Japan)
• The World Ends With You (Jupiter/Square Enix)

8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2008)

Recipient

• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo / Nintendo)
  - Eiji Aonuma

Nominees

• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Infinite Interactive / D3 Publisher)
  - Steve Fawkner, Janeen Fawkner
• Contra 4 (WayForward / Konami)
  - Chris Watson, Matt Bozon, Robert Koshak, Sean Velasco
• Phase (Harmonix Music Systems / MTV Games)
  - Kasson Crooker
• Peggle (for iPod) (PopCap Games)
  - Sukhbir Sidhu, Brian Rothstein, Matthew Lee Johnston, Dan Ban