simHQ has published a round table interview where participants discussed and exchnaged their views of the genre's future. If half of the names of participants have a meaning to me, then this is a gremium that catches my attention. Among them are Oleg Maddox (IL2-series), Nils Hinrichsen (eSim: Steel Beasts Pro), Vladmimir Zayarnyi (Graviteam: Tiger versus T34), and Richard Flexman Hawley (Tricubic Studios: the helicopter simulation he developes by himself).
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