The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences announces Mark Cerny is this year's inductee into their Hall of Fame, and will receive his award from Brian Allgeier of Insomniac Games at the 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards. The Awards, will take place during the 2010 D.I.C.E. Summit on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, and will be broadcast on IFC-TV on February 25. Cerny, who received a lifetime achievement award from the International Game Developers Association in 2004, worked at Atari and Sega before founding Cerny Games, is described as "the closest we have come to a modern-day Da Vinci," by Joseph Olin, president, AIAS. "He is a diversely accomplished game designer, producer, programmer and technologist. Fluent in Japanese and one of the foremost Western experts on the Japanese game market, he's also one of the only top-level independents in a business dominated by institutions. His contributions to projects have been phenomenally successful, with sales of almost two billion dollars and over a dozen titles each exceeding two million units in sales."