 Matti, Matti, Matti, Matti ... Breschel, Breschel, Breschel, Breschel ... and alright, Ballan did quite okay too. But who cares when a Dane wins a bronze medal? ;)
Visit Cyanide's stand at "Festival du Jeu Video"
Although Cyanide didn't really care much for letting the English community know about this, it's relevant. Cyanide is attending the French event "Festival du Jeu Video" (A Video Game Exhibition). It will be possible not only to see, but also to play the long-awaited Blood Bowl for PC and TrackMania for Nintendo DS. So, if you're in Paris, France during the 26th and 28th September 2008, you might want to visit the official website of the event and have a look. Cyanide has also put up a competition to win tickets to the event. However, if you don't live in France you'll have to buy the flight tickets yourself - you can read more about that right here.
And if you're reading this, Cyanide, I'll gladly accept an invitation ;)
Dankan's back with new projects
A while ago, Dankan, one of the best - if not the best - databaseurs in the PCM community, announced that he'd have to 'retire' for a while. Now, he's back and unlike other years, he's not going to work on 2008 or 2009 databases. Instead, he will use his skills on making historical databases, something which the community has been lacking the past two years. His first DB will be a 1990 DB and will be an update of a project he made for PCM06. He's also planned to make another historical DB after the 1990 one, but the year is still undecided. You can read more about his 1990 project here.
Two 2009 databases
It's pretty much acknowledged as being a waste of time releasing 2009 databases now when the 2008 season hasn't even ended yet, and when the transfer season is still very active. But obviously, some people don't really mind that and release their databases anyway ;) The two released this week are pretty much alike. They are updated until the 24th and 25th of September, and Rooney's DB contains a Cervelo shirt. The other one is made by Karack33 and is available here.
... and two 2008 databases
And while the 2009 databases are being spit out, so are the 2008 DBs. The newest one is made by the EuskalPCM community and contains a new race, Vuelta a Columbia. Other than that, it's pretty much the same, basic features as all other databases. You can download it here. The other one is in fact one of the older databases. It's been out for a while, but since the maker of it, Evans89, is known for making hundreds of patches I didn't get around to upload it until now when it seems like he's done releasing patches. The package which have been uploaded contains the main package, 3 patches, 1 pack of startlists, 1 shirt pack and one track DB - 423 MB. Interested? Download it here.
PCM.daily wins vs. PCM-Portugal
As I have mentioned the past few weeks, we had lined up a match vs. PCM-Portugal in scratch. This took place Friday last week, and it was a great success. PCM-Portugal had some organizational problems as most of its team showed up very late, but in the end, we got to play the 3 rounds of 30 laps which ended up with PCM.daily, thanks to good tactics, leading Ruben to the victory in 2 out of 3 rounds, winning with 469 points against PCM-Portugal's 383 points.
More importantly, the match also showed that scratch is very suited for online matches. Tactics have a great impact on the gameplay, and in opposition to elimination, it's not full-power all way. Conclusion: I think everyone had a fun time, also the Portuguese people, and we're looking forward to the next match, whatever that will be.
PCM.daily - now as a Facebook group
Yes, it's true. You can now also support PCM.daily on Facebook by joining the group 'PCMdaily.com'. So far, there's 7 members, including Maggot, Doddy13, myself and Agger. I have no idea what we need it for, but I guess that's the consequences of being too bored at school at times ;) |
