Unfortunately,
the Handheld Game of the Year award was part of the award montage covering Family Game, Racing Game, Sports Game, and Mobile Game of the Year, which were all rattled off without an acceptance speech.
On top of all this, and most important to us here, Metroid: Samus Returns won
the Handheld Game of the Year award!
Not exact matches
Best Storytelling — Horizon Zero Dawn Best Visual Design — Cuphead Best Audio — The Legend
of Zelda Breath
of the Wild Best Gaming Performance — Ashly Burch (Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn) Best Indie
Game — Friday the 13th The
Game Best Multiplayer
Game — PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Studio
of the
Year — Nintendo EPD Best VR
Game — Resident Evil 7 Esports Play
of the
Year — Overwatch Esports Team
of the
Year — Lunatic Hai Esports
Game of the
Year — Overwatch Best Streamer / Broadcaster — Markiplier
Handheld / Mobile
Game of the
Year — Pokemon Sun / Moon Nintendo
Game of the
Year — The Legend
of Zelda Breath
of the Wild Playstation
Game of the
Year — Horizon Zero Dawn Xbox
Game of the
Year — Cuphead PC
Game of the
Year — PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds The Critics Choice
Award — The Legend
of Zelda Breath
of the Wild Breakthrough
Award — Ashly Burch (Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn) Hall
of Fame — Final Fantasy Most Wanted
Game — The Last
of Us 2 Still Playing
Award — World
of Tanks Outstanding Contribution to the UK Games Industry — Debbie Bestwick MBE (Founder
of Team17 — Worms etc) Lifetime Achievement
Award — Sid Meier (Civilization etc) Ultimate
Game of the
Year — The Legend
of Zelda Breath
of the Wild
8th December, 2017 — Nintendo received a number
of honours at The
Game Awards, winning the awards for Game of the Year for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Best Family Game for Super Mario Odyssey and Best Handheld Game for Metroid: Samus Re
Awards, winning the
awards for Game of the Year for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Best Family Game for Super Mario Odyssey and Best Handheld Game for Metroid: Samus Re
awards for
Game of the
Year for The Legend
of Zelda: Breath
of the Wild, Best Family
Game for Super Mario Odyssey and Best
Handheld Game for Metroid: Samus Returns.
Samus took home the gold at the D.I.C.E.
awards this
year, taking the title of «Handheld Game of the Year», making MercurySteam the first Spanish development studio to win such aw
year, taking the title
of «
Handheld Game of the
Year», making MercurySteam the first Spanish development studio to win such aw
Year», making MercurySteam the first Spanish development studio to win such
award.
Jointly leading the nominations with five each, are Naughty Dog's action - adventure survival horror title The Last
of Us — receiving nods for
Game of the
Year, Best Design, Best Visual Art, Best Narrative and Best Technology — and Media Molecule's PlayStation Vita title Tearaway, which received acclaim throughout 2013 for its art style and its creative use
of the PS Vita inputs and sensors, and which was nominated for
awards including Innovation and Best
Handheld / Mobile
Game.
No
awards for
Handheld game of the
Year?
Accolades for the franchise include PlayStation: The Official Magazine (Editor's Choice
Award),
Game Informer (Action / Adventure
Game of the
Year and
Handheld Game of the Month
Award), Electronic Gaming Monthly (Best PS2
Game), IGN.com (Editor's Choice
Award and
Game of the
Year Award), and four nominations in the Annual Interactive Achievement
Awards, including Overall
Game of the
Year and Console
Game of the
Year.
Blizzard Entertainment's digital card
game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft also comes with three nominations, including the top Game of the Year award, Best Design, and Best Handheld / Mobile G
game Hearthstone: Heroes
of Warcraft also comes with three nominations, including the top
Game of the Year award, Best Design, and Best Handheld / Mobile G
Game of the
Year award, Best Design, and Best
Handheld / Mobile
GameGame.
The nomination ballot and further details about the Choice
Awards are now available online, with the categories this
year including Best Audio, Best Game Design, Best Technology, Best Visual Arts, Best Writing, Best Debut Game, Best Downloadable Game, Best Handheld Game, Innovation, and Game of the Y
year including Best Audio, Best
Game Design, Best Technology, Best Visual Arts, Best Writing, Best Debut
Game, Best Downloadable
Game, Best
Handheld Game, Innovation, and
Game of the
YearYear.
Other Nintendo
games that won
awards include Metroid: Samus Returns for
Handheld Game of the
Year, Fire Emblem Heroes for Mobile
Game of the
Year, Super Mario Odyssey for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle for Strategy / Simulation
Game of the
Year, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Racing
Game of the
Year.
O
Game of the
Year - The Legend
of Zelda: Breath
of the Wild O Outstanding Achievement in
Game Direction - The Legend
of Zelda: Breath
of the Wild O Outstanding Achievement in
Game Design - The Legend
of Zelda: Breath
of the Wild O Immersive Reality Technical Achievement - Lone Echo / Echo Arena O Immersive Reality
Game of the
Year - Lone Echo / Echo Arena O Mobile
Game of the
Year - Fire Emblem Heroes O
Handheld Game of the
Year - Metroid: Samus Returns O DICE Sprite
Award - Snipperclips O Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds O Strategy / Simulation
Game of the
Year - Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle O Sports
Game of the
Year - FIFA 18 O Role - Playing
Game of the
Year - Nier: Automata O Racing
Game of the
Year - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe O Fighting
Game of the
Year - Injustice 2 O Family
Game of the
Year - Snipperclips O Adventure
Game of the
Year - The Legend
of Zelda: Breath
of the Wild O Action
Game of the
Year - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds O Outstanding Technical Achievement - Horizon Zero Dawn O Outstanding Achievement in Story - Horizon Zero Dawn O Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design - Super Mario Odyssey O Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition - Cuphead O Outstanding Achievement in Character - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - Senua O Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction - Cuphead O Outstanding Achievement in Animation - Cuphead
The GO series began with the
award - winning Hitman GO releasing in April 2014 followed by Lara Croft GO that released in August 2015 on iOS and Android platforms receiving critical acclaim and won such
awards as Apple's iPhone Game of the Year and Best Mobile / Handheld Game of the Year at The Game Awards in 2015 having since been succeeded on mobile devices by Deus
awards as Apple's iPhone
Game of the
Year and Best Mobile /
Handheld Game of the
Year at The
Game Awards in 2015 having since been succeeded on mobile devices by Deus
Awards in 2015 having since been succeeded on mobile devices by Deus Ex GO.
We're continuing on with our
Game of the
Year awards, now announcing our favourite title on
handheld devices.
The first one, the aptly titled
Game Developers Choice
Awards, celebrated the best of 2016's mainstream hits.Blizzard and its multiplayer shooter Overwatch wound up capturing the objective «Game of the Year» and «Best Design» awards...... Niantic's Pokemon Go took the «Best Mobile / Handheld Game» category (along with, I presume, the «most likely to cause a bigger riot than Black Friday over an electric rat» award)...... Naughty Dog's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End got away with the award for «Best Technology» - after all, that Crash gameplay looked am
Awards, celebrated the best
of 2016's mainstream hits.Blizzard and its multiplayer shooter Overwatch wound up capturing the objective «
Game of the
Year» and «Best Design»
awards...... Niantic's Pokemon Go took the «Best Mobile / Handheld Game» category (along with, I presume, the «most likely to cause a bigger riot than Black Friday over an electric rat» award)...... Naughty Dog's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End got away with the award for «Best Technology» - after all, that Crash gameplay looked am
awards...... Niantic's Pokemon Go took the «Best Mobile /
Handheld Game» category (along with, I presume, the «most likely to cause a bigger riot than Black Friday over an electric rat»
award)...... Naughty Dog's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End got away with the
award for «Best Technology» - after all, that Crash gameplay looked amazing!
Other highlights
of the event went to «Firewatch» who received the Best Indie
Game Award and «Pokemon GO» who received the Most Innovative Game of the Year award and the Best Mobile / Handheld
Award and «Pokemon GO» who received the Most Innovative
Game of the
Year award and the Best Mobile / Handheld
award and the Best Mobile /
Handheld Game.