Hey Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, you earned it.
Nice work nabbing the Best Handheld Game of the Year award at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Still selling like hotcakes after an October, 2007 release? Damn right.
Other winners include Portal (best video game, innovation, design excellence) and Bioshock (story writing, visual art, audio). Complete list of winners after the jump.
The recipients of the 8th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards are:
2007 Best Game Design
Portal (Valve)
Kim Swift, Realm Lovejoy, Paul Graham
2007 Best Visual Art
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Scott Sinclair, Shawn Robertson, Andrew James
2007 Best Technology
Crysis (Crytek/Electronic Arts)
Cevat Yerli, Douglas Binks, Timur Davidenko, Martin Mittring
2007 Best Writing
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Ken Levine, Emily Ridgway, Joe McDonagh, Susan O’Connor
2007 Best Audio
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Eric Brosius, Pat Balthrop, Emily Ridgway, Justin Mullins
2007 Best Debut
Crackdown (Real Time Worlds / Microsoft Game Studios)
Ramon Gonzalez, Violetta Sanchez, Rafael Diaz, Jose Guerra
2007 Innovation
Portal (Valve)
Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw
2007 Best Handheld Game
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo / Nintendo)
Eiji Aonuma
2007 Best Downloadable Game
Flow (thatgamecompany / Sony Computer Entertainment)
Kellee Santiago, Jenova Chen, Martin Middleton, Hao Cui, John Edwards,
Nick Clark
2007 Game of the Year
Portal (Valve)
Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw
Recipients for the evening’s special awards were:
Lifetime Achievement Award
Sid Meier
Pioneer Award
Ralph Baer
Ambassador Award
Jason Della Rocca
Game Developer Choice Awards [GameChoiceAwards.com]
Game Development Community Chooses ‘Portal’ as Game of the Year at the 8th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards [FoxBusiness.com]
Portal and Bioshock games take the cake [News.com.au]
GDC08: Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass voted best handheld game [Pocket Gamer]