david braben
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Despite Pandemic, Gaming CEOs Made An Obscene Amount Of Money In 2020
In 2020, as the world grappled with a paradigmatic societal shift in the form of a globe-spanning pandemic, chief executives of the biggest gaming companies collectively brought home close to $US1 (A$1.39) billion. That’s according to a new report from market intelligence firm Games One, which collates a handful of key metrics regarding the video…
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Elite’s Procedural Generation Algorithms Closely Predicted Real Extra-Solar Planets
I know Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen gets a lot of press, but it’s Elite: Dangerous from David Braben’s Frontier Developments that has me hot under my spacesuit. If anything, it’s Braben’s attention to detail and the depth of the simulation that intrigues me, so I wasn’t surprised to learn today that Elite has one of…