New Year Honours for game makers

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New Year Honours for game makers

Veteran British game makers have featured strongly 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.

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.

The two brothers were made Members of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition for their services to the UK's computer games industry.

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TBH I think there are other game companies whose founding members deserve it more than some guys who put a nice GUI on a spreadsheet