It's been a while since we last posted a Weekly News article (mainly due to me being busy with school), but we're back this week, and with PCM08 coming up shortly you can be sure to see this again week after week. So, enjoy!
New info on Radsport Manager Evolution PCMScandinavia, a Scandinavian fansite, is slowly turning into a fansite for Radsport Manager Evolution ;) This week, they posted a lot of new information about the game which supposedly will be released on the same day as PCM08, 19th of June 2008. The new information reveals that the game will be in real-time (1:1 scale), it will have a fully customizable DB, 40 teams and 1000 riders along with other minor details. They said they are focusing on quality instead of quantity which is clearly shown in the number of teams and riders ;) You can get the full details and 5 new screenshots over at our Scandinavian friends' website.
Smoothie announces PCM Monthly Smoothie, one of the main graphic artist at this site, has announced that he - along with some of the other regular PCM.daily visitors - will make a monthly PCM-magazine which is - surprisingly - called PCM Monthly. First release is set for the 31st of May, in a week, and it's supposed to be including articles about the Giro along with the latest information from PCM.daily and in the PCM world in general. For one, I'm looking very much forward to see what he and his team has been able to do.
PCM 08 goes gold - soon The beta testing session of Pro Cycling Manager 2008 is about to end, and except for the leaked screenshots, it has been very silent around the beta testing team. No leaked details, no information, yet there's still just one month until the release. This also means the gold version, which is basically the final version of the game, is about to be sent to the publisher who will then ship them to all the countries (first Netherlands, Belgium, France, etc.).
Cyanide announces new game Not too long ago, we here at PCM.daily reported about the weird photos which had started showing up at Cyanide's official website. We also combined the photos with a quote from the official blog, saying that Cyanide was currently working on a multiplayer game. And now, Cyanide has announced what we were thinking: They will be making a MMOG called Dungeon Party, which is described "as a game that leads two teams of intrepid players deep into a dungeon in search of treasure. Each team not only has to overcome the dirty tricks of the other side, but they also have to survive the numerous traps and monsters that lie within. The first team that gets out alive, WITH THE TREASURE, is the winner." The best thing about this is that - as far as I can read - it will be available for free. You can read more about it right here.
Contador will win the Giro After today's stage to the Giro the headline might not be all that wrong. However, this isn't supposed to be a cycling-related article, but more a resumé of the latest poll here at PCM.daily. We asked the members who they thought would win the Giro. 27 % went for Alberto Contador, 20 % for his team mate Andreas Klöden, 17 % for Riccardo Ricco and 16 % for Danilo Di Luca. Of the riders mentioned, Leonardo Piepoli was the one to score lowest with just 4 votes. In total, 471 people voted.
PCM07 World Championships going into the final phase On Friday the last round of the finals will be played, and that means the end of a long, hard way for some participants. Currently, after 4 out of the 6 stages, French-guy Gouffran_LTL is in the lead with 455 points, closely followed by two Danes: MJ91 with 445 points and Chuck with 420 points. The last two stages are: Amstel Gold Race and the 2007-Dauphine stage with Le Mont Ventoux.
A lot of people have been asking about the minimum requirements for running the game. This is mainly due to the fact that Clément Pinget in an interview with PCM.daily said that the game would require more than PCM07 did. And today, I've finally found the answer for these questions, so here goes, according to the Scandinavian publisher of the game: Minimum requirements: 2.2Ghz processor, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb DirectX (Ver. 9.0c or better) which supports Shaders 2.0 (NVIDIA GeForce 5900 / ATI Radeon 9600 or better), 6Gb free space on hard drive, DVD-ROM drive, DirectX compatible sound card.
For optimal playing standards, this configuration is recommended: Dual-Core processor, 2Gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 or ATI Radeon X1950 video card.
As some have noticed, a bunch of beta screenshots have been leaked on a German website, showing screenshots of several parts of the game, including the track mode, the main menu and some in-race screenshots. First of all, this is a 'leak', and it breaks the Non-Disclosure-Agreement which the beta testers have signed, and second of all these screenshots do not represent the final version of the game, but only the beta version. That said, it isn't illegal to have a look at them, although they will probably soon be removed from the website they are hosted at.
The link? Find it yourself ;)
Edit: Even if you don't get to see the leaked screenshots, I have made a bunch of new official screenshots available in our PCM 08 screenshot album.
As some may have noticed, PCM.daily today reached member #10.000 which is simply an amazing milestone for us. The 'lucky' member who registered as #10.000 was Dallas40, a Spanish guy, and that happened at exacly 18:53 GMT. PCM.daily is now just not yet another website - it's an important PCM website which in many ways are setting the bar. We have given the English part of the PCM community new life with our exclusive news, we've been the first with the most important news, and this year, we've also released the most downloaded 2008 database for Pro Cycling Manager 2007. That said, it's all still 'work in progress', and we will do our best to do even better when the new PCM 2008 is released. I'd like to personally thank everyone for making this possible. This is not just the crew members, although they have been doing an amazing effort, but also all the active members who in every way make this site interesting to visit. I've said this before, but without the members, you, this site would be worth nothing. There's another milestone coming up, and it will most probably be reached this month, so it's definitely a good month for us. For the same reason, I hope to have "a Milestone Extra" ready whenever we reach the next record.
Again, thanks a lot. Feel free to post comments in the Comments section of this news article or in this forum thread.
Many of you have reported that Single Race-mode doesn't work with PCM.daily 08.DB. We've been looking into this and have come up with a solution - it's a 500 KB package including a new OfficialReleaseSingle.cdb plus the .bat-files which were missing from the V2 package. Extract the package to your main PCM folder, double click the SingleRace.bat-file and play all you want ;)
