Eidos president Ian Livingstone is being made a CBE.

The studio executive made the New Year Honours list for his services to the gaming industry and the education sector.

Livingstone, whose honour coincides with his 63rd birthday, also co-created the Fighting Fantasy series of role-playing books.

"I'm genuinely humbled to get something," he told BBC News. "My life has been all about games, and I think we learn an awful lot through play.

"Writing Fighting Fantasy books with Steve Jackson in the 1980s seemed to have got a whole generation of children reading again.

"I'm delighted that what we created not just manifested itself in interactive books but it's actually inspired people to join the computer games industry."

Livingstone is recognised for pioneering improved teaching of ITC in British schools, convincing education secretary Michael Gove to overhaul the subject.

Other technology figures to make the Honours list include Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox and Imagination Technologies boss Hossein Yassaie.

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