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David Braben, OBE

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I saw this, and thought of you...

Apparently, David Braben has been granted the honour of being an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Queen's Birthday Honours List wrote:
David John BRABEN,
FREng
Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
Frontier Development plc. For services to
the UK Computer and Video Games
Industry
BBC News article where I discovered this about halfway down in a single sentence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27830525

Full Birthday Honours List pdf: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... 4_List.pdf
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And now he gets his own article! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27836293
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Off topic a bit, & maybe it's one of those questions that shouldn't be asked, but....
whatever happened to Ian Bell?
Just wondering.
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bit of info here, they got back together to celebrate Elite's 25th anniversary although gave separate presentations
http://www.edge-online.com/features/elite-reunion/
I would have loved to see more Elite games from these two working together, maybe the No Man's Sky game http://www.no-mans-sky.com/ comes close, certainly seems trippy enough :lol:
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