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Every year at the DICE games summit in Las Vegas, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences awards one industry luminary with a place in their hall of fame. This year saw Electronic Arts founder and all-round industry entrepreneur Trip Hawkins awarded with a place in said hall in congratulations for a “significant impact of contribution” to the games industry.
“It is an incredible honour to be recognised by my distinguished peers in the industry,” said Trip, “It is a great privilege to join the industry’s greatest luminaries and be one of few to be named an AIAS Hall of Fame inductee. I love this industry and am not finished pushing its boundaries.”
Trip Hawkins was the man who established Electronic Arts as a publisher and developer, however he quickly moved on from there, setting up a new company called 3DO. After a failed console launch and a series of bad financial results the company went under only a few years ago; Hawkins, however, moved on and is now working at his third company, Digital Chocolate, on new mobile games content.
He joins other such industry celebrities as Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, Hironobu Sakaguchi, John Carmack, Will Wright, Yu Suzuki and Peter Molyneux who have all previously won the award.
