With Pellizotti2 having gone on a weekend vacation far, far away from useable internet, I have the pleasure of bringing you this week's Weekly News.

Merry Christmas from PCM.daily
First of all, the crew at PCM.daily would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Hopefully, you'll all get the chance to celebrate it with your dearest - perhaps with some pretty awesome food and a present or two too ;-)

New story initiative sees light of day
We recently launched the Story of the Month award, organized by admin Mresuperstar, but in the coming time story makers can expect even more exposure of both themselves and their stories, thanks to a new initiativer by member Ian Butler.

Dubbed 'Writers Block', Ian Butler plans to make a monthly (or two-monthly) magazine about story writing with interviews of the writers, updates on current stories, flashbacks to old stories and much more. You can read more about it here.

1961 database released
We've previously mentioned a beta version of a 1961 database in this section, however now it's time to enjoy the full version.

As the name reveals, this database lets you play with the teams and riders of 1961. It comes with 52 teams, 1000 riders and basically everything else you need and more. Unfortunately, the career mode does not work with this DB, but there should be plenty of hours of entertainment in playing with the many new stages the database comes with anyway.

Download and description right here.

Have your say
Some time next week, the PCM.daily Awards will make its return to the site - as usual, with the nominations opening up first before the actual voting.

Currently, there are no plans on changing anything in particular, but we've opened up a thread where you now have the chance to propose new award categories for this year's awards. So if you have a good idead for a new PCM.daily award, this is the place to go.