Over the last few months the BBC News: Technology Reporter Daniel Emery has been investigating the Games Industry, Amongst the “Inside Games” articles found within the BBC News website, is an insight to one of the most successful, long lasting Game Developers Codemasters past, present and future standings.

Daniel Emery reports on Codemasters outstanding history,  strengths, the current climate and future. Along with Codemasters “Vice President” Gavin Cheshire’s current accounts.

“As a publisher, you need to stay focused as to what you actually are.”

Gavin Cheshire

In this report published by the BBC News, a video of Codemasters “Executive Producer” David Brickley giving his points of view for his job role, goals and achievements that a games producer would expect to do, Also covering how Codemasters intend to develop its futures technology and keep up with the ever competitive games market.

View the full article and video here

Many thanks to Baast from the Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Forums for finding this new arcticle, courtesy of videogamers.com.

While there are no new screen shots, there is a lengthy interview with Clive Lindop. The interview contains the answers to questions that have been floating around for a while now. The two that jumped out the most were about the future DLC for the X-Box 360, an official response as to why ‘2′ was removed from the title, and news on the current status of the game, as well as new videos coming to us soon.

The article is a meaty four pages, and is well worth the read, as Clive gives some good, solid responses to some pretty tough questions.

The article can be read Here

Sadly everything has to come to an end, and the last final answers have been issued.

Early this morning, Helios the Community Manager for the OFP2 Forums introduces the Third batch of your questions.

Their are only Four New question and answers this time round, But Helios posted something interesting “Apologies to those people that didn’t get their questions answered, but stay tuned for further Q&A’s coming soon” Hinting more answers maybe issued at a later date.

The Third Batch of answers can be found here

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The Second batch from Three have now been issued, again Helios introduces them into the OFP2 Forums.

Their are Five New questions and answers, the last batch will be issued tomorrow (thursday 09 April).

You can indulge yourself here

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Codemasters will be at this years I-Series. There will be unfortunately no Operation Flashpoint 2 present. Helios however will be there and enslaved to “FUEL UP” gamers with slushies.

There is a reward for anyone whom can acquire a picture of Helios giving out slushies. There is also a general recommendation for people to go and camp out the CM I-booth and shout obscenities.

If anyone is going please remember to take pictures and post them on the forum, so the best ones can be uploaded to Flickr.

Details: http://i36.multiplay.co.uk/

Make sure to read this thread’s: http://community.codemasters.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345708 active conversation regarding this topic it’s quite a good thread.

Moments ago the new US community officer DefenderOne made his introduction. Click More to read the message.

Defender makes a Standard introduction however in his message he calls for all North Americans to report in so he knows who is who. Make your post here

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A new German preview has emerged. The translation from Google is pretty bad. The information is a lot of already known content. The reviewer gives the game a 75% to 84% on first impression.

Thanks to Damien_17,

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The first of 3 batches of Question and Answers, was released today by Helios on the OFP2 Forums. They are replies to the earlier Question and Answers submission thread regarding the Skira Island. Today’s batch contains 5 replies.

Helios notes that there will be another batch released on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

The Original post is quoted below.

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Thanks to Damien_17 on the Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising forums there is a new German preview. The preview is short, but contains some pictures as well as links to other previews (wich are not new). One quote that stood out is near the end of the article.

Our conclusion: Man, this is realistic!

The new screen shots are below, click on the thumbnails to view a larger view, courtesy of the OFP2 Flickr page.

Read the fully translated article here: PCGames.de Translated Article