The DeanBeat: Fallout, Skyrim director Todd Howard earns lifetime achievement award

Todd Howard isn’t a big guy, but he’s going to be honored as one of the giants of the video game industry. Howard, creator of blockbuster games such as Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, will be given the prestigious lifetime achievement award at the annual Game Developers Choice Awards in March. This is a big deal because Howard’s peers have chosen to give the award to somebody who has been one of the most commercially successful game developers.

Howard is the rare combination of an artist who grasps the craft of making video games and is able to use that talent to make mainstream titles that sell in the tens of millions of units and generate billions of dollars for his company, Bethesda Game Studios. The studio is a division of Bethesda Softworks, which is itself a division of ZeniMax Media. The award is considered one of the most prestigious in gaming because it honors the recipient’s entire body of work, and it is awarded by game development peers.