Although nothing official has been said yet more and more websites are starting to report release dates for Pro Cycling Manager 2008 which could very well be true. As always, there are different release dates depending on where you live, but these also follow a pattern we've seen before.
Denmark and Norway will, according to the publisher KeMedia, get the game on the 4th of July. Sweden and Finland will probably have to import the game as they have been doing since 2005/2006 since KeMedia obviously hasn't decided to change its strategy. According to Vurp's "Video Game Upcoming Release Program", the game will be released on the 20th of June. I suppose they mean that it will be released to the "traditional" countries on that day, meaning France, Benelux, Germany, Italy and Spain. Concerning the British release date, well, I really don't know. It's usually published by Digital Jesters, but they have closed down, and I don't know if they've found a new one. They probably have, but I'd expect the game to be released around the same date as in Scandinavia.
Update: Seems like Cyanide wants you to wait with applying. They have written on the French forum that they should "wait a little longer", so, well, wait ;)
For the first time in many years, Cyanide is actually opening up for new beta testers. There's not a whole lot of spots left, but there's a few, so hurry up and apply right now.
bdufourd wrote:
Pro Cycling Manager 2008 beta-tests are about to start and the team is not complete yet. If you want, you can become a beta-tester.
To become a beta-tester:
Code:
- Pseudo: - Email address: - Interest points (carrier / run): - Experience on PCM (which opus, time spent): - Motivation to become a beta-tester: - DxDiag* :
* : We need you DxDiag to know your hardware configuration... but just one part is interesting. Generate your DxDiag but copy-paste just these parts: System Information, Display Devices (until Driver Date/Size) and Sound Devices.
As mentioned ages ago, PCMBenelux.com have been working on an interview with Clément Pinget about PCM08. Although it's been very silent lately it has now finally been published. It's currently only in Dutch, but we're working on a translation as fast as possible :)
You can read it in Dutch on PCMBenelux' website. For now, you can use Google's website translation system. It doesn't translate it "optimally", but it does give you an impression of what to expect. Read it in "look-a-like" English here. (Look below)
Update, 18:28 (GMT): Mrlol has been doing a really good job, and thanks to him, we can now present the full English translation of the interview by PCMBenelux. Go read it in English right here.
Update, 14:49 (GMT): After a quick read-through, here's what seems to be the most important "points": - PCM had some good sale figures in pretty much all countries except for Germany which were influenced by all the doping scandales - There will not be any major improvement to the media part of the game - Riders will now also have nationality as a factor when deciding to move to a new team - It will be possible to set your own team at the World Championships. However, some riders may refuse to participate. - All licenses for Pro Tour-teams (also Astana) - No major improvement to the calendar - No graphical differences between riders (such as height, weight, etc.) - There have been some rumours about being able to unlock legends in the next PCM, but Pinget has denied this rumour. - No official database editor, unless an "external" programmer is interested in doing the job for Cyanide. - There will be a lot more IsolatedBuildings for the stage editor. Also, they have been working a lot on improving the stability of the editor. - More rider animations - There'll be sixteen track riders in the database with three stats: stamina, acceleration and resistance - No major changes to the multiplayer mode.
I hope you all enjoyed Milano - San Remo. I didn't - I was stuck in a summer cottage in a dark part of Denmark which has never even heard of the word "internet" and / or "Eurosport" ;) Anyway, I hope you're all enjoying the Easter. If not, here's the 54th edition of the Weekly News ;)
Beta tests to start next week I got "back together" with Clément Pinget last week - something which PCMBenelux obviously have much harder with for some reason :P - and he told me that the beta tests of Pro Cycling Manager 2008 are probably going to begin in the upcoming week. The beta testers are most probably going to have to sign a non-disclosure contract, meaning that you won't be able to pressure us - the beta testers - to tell anything ;) And if you manage to do it anyway you can always use the information to get the beta tester fired. Believe me, I've tried ;)
ECDB closes down The German database team, ECDB, which has been pretty much invisible for PCM07, but was a quite popular team when making databases for PCM 06, has closed itself down. The lead person of the ECDB-team, Andi, has lost motivation - so, it's now closed down, including the English forums which until now has been our main rival ... with their 10-20 posts ;)
UCI NG DB - not a 08 DB! Yep, it has happened. It's Friday evening when I'm writing this, and at this point I'm yet to add a 2008 database to the download section. How amazing and unbelieveable is that? ;) Instead, I've had the pleasure of adding an imaginary database, the UCI NG DB. It's a DB made by our friend Rasmu89, Pereiro89, Evans89 and what else the guy has been calling himself the past few years. As said, it's a "partly" imaginary database. It has real riders, but no real teams. Instead, we have teams such as "Aldi Markt", "Red Bull", "Seat", etc.. With the package you get jerseys, mini-jerseys, accesories, etc. to give you the feel of actually having a "new world of cycling". So, if you're looking for something new, try this by downloading it here.
More new save games In one week, we have received three new save games to use with PCM 07. The first one is submitted by mrlol and is based on PCM Spain. Mrlol has led Quick Step to victory in "pretty much all Pro Tour-races". The World Championship in Belgium is coming up, and everyone are expecting your rider, Tom Boonen, to win the jersey on the flat parcours. If you're interesting in taking over, download it here - if you rather want to see how mrlol is doing with his team you can read his story here. The 2nd one is rather amazing. Shaft, a Danish member of the site, has submitted a save game which is in ... 2017 - yep, that's right. It is actually possible to get that far in PCM. The save game is based on the PCMGeeks DB, and you are controlling a CSC-team which is actually Danish. There's lots of Danish riders on the team including a (Danish) World Champion. This season, however, has not been too good, and the team will have to get some good results in the Tour de France which is just about to start - otherwise, 10 seasons of leading CSC is over. Keep in mind that there's a whole lot of information stored in the save game. This means that it's remarkably slower than normally, and especially on the 1st of July and the 1st of January it will take between 5 and 10 minutes (maybe longer) to proceed to the following day. If you're still interested it's downloadable from here. Last, but not least, we have our Tinkoff end-2008 game which is submitted by rjc_43. You're in August, the national championships have just been ridden, and there's still time for transfers although some have already been done. Contador signed for the team for this season and won the Tour de France ahead of Schleck by less than 0 seconds - so, you've got something to live up to for the upcoming season. The save game is based on the PCM Spain DB, and you can download it from here.
New site soon to be opened This is more of a "personal" message. I, CrueTrue, have been working on a new website for a while now. It's about my favourite band, the Gin Blossoms. Since there wasn't really any fanpage for them I thought I'd have to start my own, so for the past few months (it's been going so slowly ;)) I've been adding live material, etc. to the site, and it's now about to open - the domain will be http://www.gbfan.net , but it hasn't opened yet. I don't hope it will have any effect on my time here since it's more of a one-time job (compared to this one which is almost full time :P).
PCM.daily is searching for a programmer With 7500 users it should be possible to find just one programmer. PCM.daily is now searching for a programmer who's willing to help out the site by making a few new features. The current crew got lots of ideas, but don't have the neccessary skills needed to make the ideas real :) Therefore, if you're interested, send me, CrueTrue, a Private Message or contact me through the "Contact" form, MSN or E-Mail. We don't have any specific requirements (except programming skills), so just apply if you feel you will be able to help us.
With Fabian Cancellara finally taking his second monument by winning this evening's Milan - San Remo in amazing style, there's not any better moment to go on presenting the new features of the PCM.daily's 08 DB. Today we're making public the official race list. Lacking a couple of races I'd have liked being added 8the game simply can't handle more than 735 stages), we got a great mix of races from five continents, including the entire professional calendar plus a nice bunch of .2 races and national events. Click on "Read More" to find it out.
