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As official media of Gamelab 2016 , Gamereactor has the honour to break the news of the winner of the annual Legend Award at this years' Conference. The organisation has decided to bestow this prestigious award to none other than David Braben, a renowned industry veteran that has not only taken part in the innovation of the video games themselves, but also tried to smooth the way for others to follow suit.

Braben made a name of himself when he was just 20 years old, thanks to the development of Elite, a space sim praised "for the use of 3D wireframe graphics with removal of hidden line". And coincidentally, the Legend is closing a circle in his career with the new successful entry of the series, Elite: Dangerous, a game capable of capturing the beauty and coldness of space and has launched on console and offered VR support.

Braben founded Frontier Developments, a studio with more than 20 years of expertise in the industry, and responsible games such as Dog's Life, Kinectimals, some of the RollerCoaster Tycoon and Thrillville games or the beautiful indie platformer Lost Winds. But Gamelab wants to highlight Braben's involvement in Raspberry Pi project as well, a small-sized, low-cost motherboard that was created in order to bring PC to every corner of the world.

Braben will be in Barcelona starting June 29 to receive his award that has been given to other legends such as Toru Iwatani, Mark Cerny, Hironobu Skaguchi, Yu Suzuki or Peter Molyneux. And besides Braben, other creative minds such as John Romero (former Doom co-creator, id Software co-founder, now developing Blackroom) and Ron Gilbert (Secret of Monkey Island, The Cave, Timbleweed Park) have recently confirmed their attendance as speakers along more veteran executives such as Peter Moore and Phil Harrison.

You can start learning about David Braben's way of understanding video games with his several interviews with Gamereactor. Here's one of the most interesting ones:

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