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New Year Honours for Game makers

January 2nd, 2010 by DavidH

British game makers have featured in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.

In total, four games figures won honours including Oliver and Paul Collyer, the brothers behind the Championship Manager series.

Screengrab from Football Manager, Sports Interactive

Also honoured were Rodney Cousens, head of Codemasters and Paul Jackson former head of industry group Elspa.

Dr Andrew Herbert, who manages Microsoft’s Research labs in Cambridge, was given an OBE.

 

Posted in Computing, New Media

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