Today has seen a very quiet and mild activity within the OFP: DR Forum Community, Why you ask?

Early this morning a member of the community figaRo, informed us to a possibility along with Helios’s posts last week that there maybe New Previews, Interviews And Videos coming to us shortly.

We can satisfyingly confirm these statements thanks to IGN’s New Video And Interview released moments ago.

The Video boasts all new, never seen in-game explosive material named “Ground Battle”. The Interview featuring Sion Lenton, Codemasters executive producer boasts a good set of Questions and Answers.

Although these new media articles are released to much hype and debate, a unique feature to this video is the possibility of a pushed back release date. At the end of this video a release date of Autumn 2009 is displayed.

Dev Update:

As development of the game enters its final stages, Sion Lenton, Dragon Rising’s executive producer, talks with IGN on how the project is progressing. This articles title: “The dev team talks about nearing its goal and targeting an autumn release.” suggests it is official for a Autumn release. This article is in Q and A format with the following questions being asked:

• At 220km squared, Skira island is a big place. Can you tell us about the variety of environments that we’re going to be able to play in?
• What effect does each particular environment have on the gameplay experience?
• What does Flashpoint’s open-world gameplay bring to the shooter genre?
• What are the biggest challenges in delivering such an ambitious project?
• How’s progress and what release timing are you expecting?

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Upon any confirmed press releases from Codemasters we shall bring you the updates as soon as possible.