Rise, Sir Ian!
Ian Livingstone has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list for services to the games industry.
Ian Livingstone is a true legend in my eyes. He worked alongside Steve Jackson when he wrote the first of the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebooks including the best selling Deathtrap Dungeon. Can you believe that was way back in 1975! They went on to establish Games Workshop where thousands of kid spend thousands of hours playing role playing games/
Livingstone has been credited with various roles in the development of board and video games and has worked for the likes of Eidos Interactive, Pumpkin Studios, Quantic Dream, Sports Interactive, and ZUXXEZ Entertainment AG. He served as executive Chairman of Eidos until 2002 and now works as the product acquisition director.
Ian describes himself as a 'true' gamer at heart and has been obsesses with gaming for over 30 years. He said. “I am thrilled to have been awarded an OBE,” he said. “It really is a tremendous personal honour, but also recognition for the computer games industry which is a great UK success story. It’s been brilliant making a career out of what is, after all, my hobby.”
Hat off to you, Sir!
