Almost 30 years later, a video game legend has stepped down as CEO of Elite Dangerous studio.

Until now, David Braben has served as CEO of Frontier Developments, responsible for popular management legends.

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Company rule close to 30 years but David Braben After 28 years he decided it was best to step aside and Stop being CEO of Frontier Developmentsa globally recognized development studio with hits like Elite Dangerous, Planet Coaster or Jurassic World Evolution behind them.

Braben will continue with another role in FrontierIn the Games Industry, Braben didn’t completely leave the company, but instead will take another role and will let Jonny Wats, the studio’s creative director, take charge of the position. “Frontier is very important to me and I am very excited to hand over my CEO responsibilities to people of exceptional talent. Johnny Wattswho will do an excellent job,” he declared.

“Watts has the perfect blend of creative leadership and vision to capitalize on the momentum of the business,” continues Braben. “I look forward to my new role at Frontier because this change focus on our long-term strategic opportunities“.

David Braben Joined the company in 1998doing development work, dealing with post production and reaching the position of COO in 2012. You can take a look at the list of games developed by Frontiers Developments over all these years to understand that this is pretty good. important work, especially in the PC world, but they will launch a new game this August 30th also for consoles, F1 Manager 2022, which suggests we take control of an official Formula 1 team.