Leading British computer games maker Peter Molyneux has been made an OBE in the New Year Honours list.
The head of Surrey’s Lionhead Studios was granted the honour for services to the computer games industry. —Call of honour for UK games maker (BBC)
OBE = “Order Of the British Empire”.
The article’s last paragraph:
“Being an absolute geek I’ve got no idea what I’m going to wear when I go and pick it up,” he said.
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