The GDC Awards 2010

What, you were thinking we'd give the award to the Destructoid party? Hell no. The line for their bar was like 40 minutes!

Apparently it's poor form to award your party best party, so if we must relinquish the title to someone else, it might as well be Sony's God of War 3 bash, which wasn't just the best Non-1UP Party, but also the best party featuring women on stilts, women with crystal balls and women screaming bloody murder -- the last being Emily Haines, lead singer of Metric, a band that took the stage to a reluctant nerd audience, but gave it their all. Come to think of it, they're sort of a synecdoche for the party, which we'd kind of written off as a self-indulgent affair, but totally enjoyed.

Did you watch Singled Out as a kid? We certainly did. One might argue the '90s dating show was integral to my generation's pubic years, right up there with MTV Spring Break, Wild On and that provocative Michelle Trachtenberg Maxim spread that I imagined. Or was it Melissa Joan Heart.

Today Chris Hardwick, who was second fiddle to Jenny McCarthey, is a one-man band, embracing and profiting from his inner geek on Web Soup and occasionally Attack of the Show!. The Final Fantasy Launch Party, one of the geekiest gigs in an already geeky week, was a perfect fit for his brand of humor. Even if he's my mortal enemy.