Oolite Bulletins

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

"Right on, Commander!"

And now he gets his own article! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27836293

Off topic a bit, & maybe it's one of those questions that shouldn't be asked, but....
whatever happened to Ian Bell?
Just wondering.

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