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The exec received recognition for his services to the industry, which include working on the BAFTA games committee and Develop advisory board, and his role as a founding trustee of GamesAid.
"It really is very humbling, and is further recognition for the whole SI team around the world. I'm a bit lost for words at the moment, so I'll leave it at that for now," Jacobson wrote on the Sports Interactive forums.
Last year, the studio's co-founders Paul and Oliver Collyer were handed MBEs in the honours list. Other games industry figures to receive OBEs include Eidos president Ian Livingstone and Fable Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux.
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