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[Laffer]

Today I woke up with this amazing news.

For all of you who don't know what this award is:

The Prince of Asturias Awards (Spanish: Premios Príncipe de Asturias) are a series of annual prizes awarded in Spain by the Prince of Asturias Foundation to individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs.

Miyamoto has been a finalist for this award for three consecutive years. He won it under the category of "Communication and Humanities". Others that have won this award under the same category have been Google, the National Greographic society or the Nature and Science journals, to name a few.

He has been selected out of 21 candidates from 11 countries.

Go Miyamoto!!

Link to the official "Prince of Asturias Awards" site in English: http://www.fpa.es/en/awards/2012/


EDIT: Ups, someone posted these news in the GAMING forum already. I'm sorry!!!!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=475174

 

[Adr1an]

Congrats to him

 

[injurai]

Spain must know something about E3 that we don't...

 

[shira]

He prolly speaks amazing spanish

 

[Escape Goat]

Video game guy was the best in the "Communications and Humanities"? Grats to him but what were the other guys contributions?

 

[Meier]

That's awesome. Congrats and well deserved, Shiggy! He definitely shaped many peoples childhoods and continues to do so.

 

[Shaheed79]

Four times a charm? Is Miyamoto the only VG creator who has regularly been honored outside of the gaming industry? Sid Meier is the only other person I would claim deserves that sort of recognition.

 

[SMT]

Asturia's C.E.O. played finally played Super Mario, 30 years later.