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elgefe02 on 21 February 2008

The 2008 Game Developers Conference has honored Nintendo with a Game Developers Choice Award. The Legend of Zelda®: Phantom Hourglass for Nintendo DS™ won for Best Handheld Game of the Year. The game continues to enjoy strong momentum in the U.S., with more than 1.1 million copies sold since its Oct. 1, 2007, release.

Nintendo received nominations in three categories: Best Game of the Year (Super Mario Galaxy™), Best Handheld Game of the Year (The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass), and Best Game Design (Super Mario Galaxy). The awards were presented during an annual ceremony the night of Feb. 20, 2008, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.  The awards are among the highest honors in game development, acknowledging excellence in game creation.

 

Source: Nintendo 



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ChronotriggerJM on 21 February 2008

Rigged I tell ya!



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pichu_pichu on 21 February 2008

Good, Phantom Hourglass deserves it



Garcian Smith on 21 February 2008

SMG didn't win Game of the Year?

Bastardos. :(



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Oyvoyvoyv on 21 February 2008

From a developer sight, I think it is fair that SMG didn't win. There are other games that are better, which is what they are looking for - not which is more fun, which SMG wins according to most others.



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ctk495 on 21 February 2008

if unfair zelda is just too good to be beaten.



bigjon on 21 February 2008

lets give the GOTY to one of the 3,000 FPS games that came out...



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MANUELF on 21 February 2008

SMG not win? Who is the winner?



BenKenobi88 on 21 February 2008

What was GOTY?



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