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

GDCA Handheld

9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2008)

God Of War: Chains Of OlympusRecipient

  • 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