The action is still yet to come in the queen stage of Giro d'Italia, so while we're waiting for Denis Menchov to go crazy on the last mountain, here's the Weekly News edition 73.
Cyanide releases new game A while ago, we reported that Cyanide was working on a free-of-charge (or free-to-play, as Cyanide puts it) multiplayer game called Dungeon Party. The game is taking place in a crazy virtual world where you compete with a team vs. another one to win treasures. It sounds fun - I haven't had time to play it myself just yet, though.
... and announces a new one Having released one game doesn't mean that Cyanide is going to sit back and relax, it seems. They've acquired the rights to make a game based on George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series. There's not much information about what kind of game Cyanide is going to make, but I guess we'll know more soon.
Paul-Boogerd World Champion in PCM08/Road Although it's not something that's been mentioned a lot here at PCM.daily, the official World Championship is currently being held, divided into Road, Elimination and Keirin. So far, only the Road Championships have been played, and this ended out with Paul-Boogerd taking the championship. This means that he can now call himself World Champion.
Next up is the championships in elimination which will be held from the 29th of May until the 31st. Several members of PCM.daily are subscribed, so hopefully some of us will be able to set our mark on the championship.
More info can be found on the website. Good luck to everyone :)
PCM09 gold tomorrow? Good news for everyone eager to play Pro Cycling Manager 2009: The game is, according to our information, going gold tomorrow, meaning that the final countdown can start. The game is still being tested by the 46 community beta testers + in-house beta testers, and hopefully, Cyanide will be able to deliver a good product for us when the game is released on the 18th of June.
Now that we're getting closer to the release of PCM09, it's also time to reveal what the covers of the games will look like. The international cover for England, Benelux, France and probably a few other countries was revealed a while ago - have a look at it here - and now it's time for the Scandinavian one.
As always, it's Saxo Bank (previously CSC) which is dominating the front, and I'm sure that we'll once again have a bunch of not-so-happy Norwegians (and I guess also Swedish people, now that they suddenly have some rather good riders).
The game will be released in Denmark (and probably also Norway) on the 26th of June.
TeamSpeak is back A few months ago, PCM.daily member Doddy13 launched a TeamSpeak server which was especially used for online gaming when the PCM.daily Track Team met other sites for online 'matches' in PCM. In the left-side menu, we had a TeamSpeak Viewer which showed who were online - this function is now back, now in a more simple version, though.
During the Giro, it's mostly used to talk about today's stage, so if you have a microphone, feel free to join us. You need the TeamSpeak Client. Once installed, open it, select Quick Connect and type in 195.74.52.108:8776 - and you're connected.
Giro d'Italia Fantasy Game Speaking of the Giro, as you probably know, several fantasy manager games are available at cycling sites. One of them is VeloGames.com, and rovven7 suggested making a PCM.daily League, which was done a few moments later by t-baum. Although the Giro has already started, you're more than welcome to set your team and join the league. You can read more about the league in this forum thread.
Also remember to use your PCM$ on the Giro bets which are available every day in the right hand side of this website.
18 through to the next round in World Championship As we reported last week, PCMBenelux is hosting the official World Championship in Pro Cycling Manager 2008. On the 9th and 10th, the first round of the Road Cycling part of the championship was played, but due to many people not showing up, everyone who did show up are through to the next round.
44 % wants to win Paris-Roubaix For c. a month, we had a poll running, asking which classic (of the ones mentioned) you'd most like to win if you were a pro cyclist - and it turned out to be the poll with most votes ever here at PCM.daily with 883 votes. 44 % of these votes went to Paris-Roubaix while 21 % of you want to win Liege - Bastogne - Liege. In the bottom of the list, we find Gent-Wevelgem, which only received 7 votes.
The new poll is whether or not Boonen should be suspended after his 2nd (or 3rd) positive cocaine test. This poll won't be open for just as long, so hurry up and vote now ;)
As we've been mentioning a couple of times, we're now trying to make the V3 work properly which is done by removing stuff from the DB. The current setup is the V3, but with the objectives, races, stages, race programs (and everything else related to races) from the V2. Unfortunately, I'm hung up my exam project and therefore don't have time to test every single version of that DB that I make.
Therefore, we're looking for one or more who have time to simulate 1 season (until April 2010) with the databases that we make. I'm actually quite confident that this version works, so it may only be this one you have to test.
The requirements are 1) that you have the V3 installed, and 2) that you can simulate a season quite quickly after we've given you the DB (c. 24 hours).
It's been a while - it's been a long while. But with the PCM.daily DB out (and withdrawn), I now feel like returning to some of the 'projects' that I were doing before the DB work. This includes the Weekly News which have been on hold ever since end November, but with PCM09 coming up, databases being released regularly and interesting 'scene' news, the need for the Weekly News is greater than ever - so here it is, the Weekly News are back.
Advanced Editor ready to take on PCM09 Along with PCM08, one editor was released. It couldn't edit all that much, but for the average user, it was more than enough with its features to edit teams and rider stats. For the advanced database makers, the Full Editor, also known as Advanced Editor, by Cyanide employee Eyolfur made it possible to make deeper changes. Yet, for a while, there was still no editor to edit the Local.cdb, which is very important e.g. when adding races. The fourth version of Full Editor made this possible.
However, there's good news for all database makers who're planning to buy PCM09: The Full Editor V4 is fully compatible with Pro Cycling Manager 2009. The database structure has, of course, changed a little, so it's not possible to just copy over an entire PCM08 DB to PCM09, but with the Full Editor available, we can actually hope for 'advanced' databases quite shortly after the release of PCM09.
Are you the world's best PCM08 gamer? Usually, a young hopeful will try to host a World Championship in Pro Cycling Manager. It hasn't really been going to well with that for pretty much an eternity, but this year, it does actually look brighter. It's hosted by the official Benelux sit, PCMBenelux with the well-known and top-quality shirt maker Messi as main organizer.
As far as I have understood, this is not a competition to see who's the best overall - there'll be a competition in three events: keirin, elimination and road cycling, each taking place on a specific date. So if you want to become known as a world champion, this is your chance.
Pictures from Amstel Gold Race 2009 As some of you may or may not have noticed, we have a section at this site called 'Member Photos' which allow our members to upload their photos from races they've 'spectated'. Luckily for us, Wyman went to see the Amstel Gold Race, and he managed to get some amazing photos from the event, including one of the grand finale between Ivanov and Kroon.
Plans for the PCM.daily DB Although we did kind of present the plans in the 'PCM.daily DB Withdrawn' news article, I'd like to clarify some things to avoid getting more private messages and e-mails about it (uh, I'm being naive now):
First of all, yes, we do plan to finish it. And hopefully, it'll be this month - but of course, we'll have to be able to fix the wierd bugs in March / June before being able to put it out. If this turns out to be very time-taking, we might release an update to the 'okay working' V2 with updated teams and graphics - time will tell.
Other 09 DB Projects In the mean time, why not have a look at the other released 09 DB Projects? First of all, there's Altehacke's P&A 09 DB which, after a few fixes, now seems to be working fine. It has updated teams, a few new races and additional equipment, so it does cover the basics. Check out this thread for more information.
Secondly, there's the other German DB, RSM News DB. For some reason, they don't want their project hosted by PCM.daily, but with that said, the links are still available from the original thread. In terms of amount of teams, the DB has pretty much the same (or more? I don't quite remember) number of teams as the PCM.daily DB, but unfortunately lacks in other areas, e.g. new races. Check this thread for more information.
Lastly, our French friends, Imthebestcoach and bobcatsman, are making a DB along with a bunch of other members from the Cyanide forums. It's a huge project, and for the very same reason, it's not finished yet. The beta has been released though and is said to be working quite well. You can read more about it here.
