John Barbour, left, and Rob Glaser

RealNetworks threw an "intimate" awards show Tuesday night at the Experience Music Project for developers of video games distributed through its online network. The ceremony came complete with its own custom statuettes, and a rare sighting of Rob Glaser in a tux.

The RealNetworks CEO and his RealGames division president, John Barbour, handed out "Great Games" awards to fourteen game developers on the eve of the Casual Connect casual games convention in Seattle. Game of the Year honors went to "Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox" from the Paprikari development studio.

Those in attendance included Matt Hulett, the former Mpire CEO and newly acknowledged chief revenue officer for RealGames North America (starting next month). A RealNetworks employee early in his career, Hulett said he got lots of ribbing after Glaser compared his return to Ken Griffey Jr. coming back to the Seattle Mariners.

"All my friends, said, hey, he's a .220 hitter, kind of in the twilight of his career," Hulett said, laughing and explaining that he would prefer to think about Griffey's role as a "team leader" instead.