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According to the PlayStation Blog, “father of the PlayStation” Ken Kutaragi has just been honored with the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’ (AIAS) 2008 lifetime achievement award. The ceremony occurred earlier this week at the D.I.C.E. summit in Las Vegas.

Kutaragi is famous for his engineering skill, and is credited with much of the success of the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles. He got the ball rolling with the original PlayStation in 1994 and continued with the launch of the PS2 and PS3, the former being one of the most successful game systems of all time, the latter of which had a bumpy start, but will likely sail under bluer skies in the future. The PlayStation brand has undeniably revolutionized the industry (the original PlayStation was the first successful system to make use of CD-based technology) and Mr. Kutaragi was the man behind the machine.

This is an honor well-deserved for a man with such a massive impact on the industry.

Read [PlayStation blog] Via [GayGamer]