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Weekly News #50
Yep, we finally reached the 50th edition of the Weekly News. We have, of course, existed for much more than 50 weeks, but as you know, we once in a while tend to "forget" them - mainly because there's not always not enough news. Anyway, here we go - 50th edition and still going strong ;)
Waghlon reviews the Bouri 08 DB Despite all the critism and "flaming", Waghlon has just published a just as critical review, and this time it's the French who's going down. Bouri released his DB last week and was immediately critized by pretty much everyone who tried the DB, and this critism is repeated in Waghlon's review. You can read it here and have a good laugh :)
..and if you want the DB anyway Well, yes, if you've read the review and want to see if it really is as bad as Waghlon says, you can download it here at PCM.daily. Specs-wise, it sounds good. It's based on the PCM Spain-project, it's a huge package with lots of graphical improvements, and you get a 08 DB - or, well, you "partly" get a 08 DB since the guy has actually forgot to change some of the teams' names and abbreviations. Read the review for more information, or go straight to download here.
So if you want a good 08 db ... ... you have to wait. The Spanish website, EuskalPCM, released their 2008 project, and despite much critism one of the creators didn't hesitate to call the project for "the best DB of the world". I doubt it's true, though, since it hasn't exactly received good votes in our DL-section. Anyway, you get an updated DB with 45 teams, you get the shirts for the teams and a set of accesories. It does probably also have more stuff than that, but these weren't mentioned in the official announcement. You can download the large pack here.
U23 Talents DB available And since you have now experienced that there's no good 2008 databases available, you might be interested in this DB instead. It's a Talents DB which solely consists of U23 riders and teams. It's made by the Italian community, and that also means there's a lot of Italian riders and teams -- but you do get "international" teams and riders too, though. It's an interesting DB, and it's good to see something "new" instead of just another hopeless attempt at making a 2008 database. So, if you're as enthusiatic as me, go ahead and download it here.
New icons Danish member, Lampert, has made a bunch of new icons to use with the game. You get icons for pretty much everything in the game, including icons for trainers, doctors, scouts, Pro Tour & Continental Tour, and much, much more. There's a screenshot in the download description. See it and download it here.
Valverde to win the Pro Tour After a few weeks of voting, most you tend to think that Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) will win the Pro Tour. He got 15 % of the votes. 1 percent more voted that they thought an unlisted guy would win. Time will tell, but one thing's for sure: The winner of the Pro Tour is not necessarily the best cyclist throughout the year - just look at the PT-calendar ;)
Minor site updates With help from Aab-ern, I've added a new statistic to the site -- "Most Active Forummers". It shows the most active members in the forum, both the most active during the past 24 hours and the past 7 days. It only counts forum posts, not comments ;) Other than that, we have made it possible to avoid the advertisements which are placed around the site. You can read more about that here.
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Interview with Clément -- this is what PCM08 will be like!
Once again, it's PCM.daily with the latest news about Pro Cycling Manager! As it's almost become a tradition, PCM.daily have interviewed Clément Pinget about the upcoming Pro Cycling Manager 2008. This time, we did a live interview with him at MSN which was done over two days. During those two days we got through a whole lot of the game, including Pro Cycling Manager 08's new Track Cycling-mode, the changes to the road race gameplay, the AI, and much, much more.
Update: I forgot to ask what platforms the game would be available on. I got the answer for that question today -- the game will be released on PC, PSP - and "probably another platform". Interesting, huh?
2nd Update: PCMBenelux will be doing a follow-up interview soon (tomorrow?), and we will of course make sure to post it here as soon as it's published.
3rd Update: ... if anyone was wondering if the Olympics will be in the game -- they won't.
We had an unexpected period of down time (c. 1 hour) tonight. We didn't have anything to do with it since it was our host which "created" the mess. We apologize for any inconvience and hope that the site stays up for now :)
Back on regular basis, it seems -- it's one week ago we last had the Weekly News, so for the first time in months I'm on time. I don't have much news for you, though - after all, we're still outside he PCM-season ;)
New article(s) Today, our Australian member, Rodda, submitted a new article which was later approved. It's an article about the upcoming season, and it goes into detail with all the Pro Tour teams and describes their good and bad sides. Go read it here and make sure to comment it. Also remember that you can always write and submit your own articles by clicking "Submit Article" in the left-hand menu.
Our crew-member, Wildcat, also uploaded an article a week ago. It's a preview of the Tour Down Under, but since it's over now there's not really any point in reading it. However, if you're interested, it's of course still available right here.
Controversy about database review Earlier this week, our database review Waghlon published his very first review. It was about the Womenbase 1.0 which he ended up giving 4 out of 5. However, he also pointed out some thing which he wasn't too content with. This made a lot of members react, especially people from the Benelux countries. The thing here is that people reacted in two ways: Some reacted by throwing mud at Waghlon (or threaten with withdrawing database projects from the site...), others reacted by mentioning some of the things which could have been different in the review. I have to say here that yes, some of the critism is 'correct'. But it doesn't mean that anyone can treat Waghlon like that. We have learned from this, and we will try to become even better at reviewing in future.
New graphics stuff I've added two new graphic files to the download section during this week. The first one was originally made for PCM06, but it does also work perfectly with PCM07 - it's a pack of new clouds and a new sky which supposedly make the game look more realistic. It's made by the graphics guru EintrachtFan who's known for his face packs for PCM06. You can download the pack here. A member named "Tourdedoping" has released a pack of 2008 shirts. The shirts are really well-made which we can thank some of the contributors to the pack for - these including guys like Brucht, the sim-eraser, etc.. We now got the shirts - we just need a good 2008 database ;) You can download the shirts here.
