From video games to comic books to movies to television, geeks have had a fun year enjoying, commenting and criticizing everything we can. This list looks at the geekiest, most controversial, shocking and memorable events for geeks over the past year.

10. Stephen Colbert’s Green Screen Challenge
Between his love for Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons, fake pundit Stephen Colbert makes time for his other nerdy passion, Star Wars. Spoofing the internet sensation, the Star Wars Kid, Colbert acted out his own lightsaber charade in front of a green screen on his Comedy Central show the Colbert Report. Geeks decided they should try fill in that green screen with anything a computer can create. Colbert decided to make this the geekiest non-contest where he would pick the winner who made him look the most heroic.
This cable television celebration of geek-dom culminated when Bonnie R.’s “Freedom Fighter” beat George L.’s submission. George L. managed to appear on the Colbert Report in person, looking surprisingly like the creator of the real lightsabers.

• Check out Green Screen submissions

9. Creating your team in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
The biggest super-hero video ever, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance gave video game and comic book fans a dream come true with the ability to create your own super-hero team. Ultimate Alliance featured 20 playable characters from Spider-Man to Ms. Marvel. You get name your team, pick an icon and upgrade their teamwork abilities. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance made you like you really were the first and last line of defense in the Marvel Universe, and with your own team, you get that much more control over saving the world. Maybe next time we can get a villains campaign so we can conquer it next time.

8. Venom Footage Leaked
Was it on purpose or a lucky find? Shortly after Sony released a new Spider-Man 3 trailer without any footage of Venom, an unfinished trailer appeared on YouTube with a few seconds of surprises at the end. Topher Grace, a.k.a. Eddie Brock, waiting in a church for this black goo to turn him into Venom.

7. Waiting on line for PS3/Wii
Shortages, few games, long lines, no guarantee. None of this stopped thousands of excited (and rich) video game fanatics waited for days in line to be one of the tiny few to buy the new Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii. At many stores, from EB Games to Best Buy, most stores had less than 8 units, forcing hundreds home unhappy to scour eBay.
But if geeks have proves anything, rain nor sleet, cold nor heat, burglars nor murders will scare us away from standing on line to get what we really want. These are the memories geeks remember and brag about for years to come.

6. Second Life going mainstream
Either Second Life is the Tetris of online gaming or reporters just like not writing articles about Azeroth and Draenei. Second Life has enjoyed skyrocking membership with major corporations opening virtual bureaus like Reuters, Toyota and Adidas. Second Life, created by Linden Lab, calls itself a virtual world, not a game, yet anything made from binary has to have some link to geek-dom. And Second Life’s lack of swords and sorcery might be the bridge from niche to mass market.

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