The Velogames Fantasy Cycling season will start with Milan San Remo. 11 classics from Milan San Remo over the Flanders Classics to the Ardennes will be in this series. You can pick a team of 12 riders for 100 points. In between the classics you can make up to 24 transfers in total. So picking the right riders is as important as making the right transfers.

There will be a PCM Daily Fantasy League. To join, you need the following code: 14101347.

More information in the thread.

It's at that time of the year where the first information of Cyanide's next renditions of its cycling games start to surface.

The French part of Amazon seem to have got hold of the official cover art of both Pro Cycling Manager 2013 and the console game Tour de France 2013.

There's not really any product info except for two release dates which are set to be June 21nd for Pro Cycling Manager 2013 and June 28th for Tour de France 2013.

But hey, we got to start somewhere. And I can guarantee that we will know much more when this month is over.

(Thanks to Rin for the tip)

Both the Update and the All in One package have been released, and it's now safe to say that PCM.daily's 2013 DB is out in the open field.

While we did expect some interest, I have to say that I didn't expect more than 2.000 downloads in less than 24 hours - and neither did the poor servers which haven't been able to serve all of you.

Therefore, we've now decided to go back to the usual way of distributing. And to clear everything up, here's some recommendations on what to do:

If you don't have any of the previos PCM.daily databases, go for the All in One Package.

If you do, go for the Update Package, but make sure that you have every file mentioned in the installation description.

Both will download as torrents. When released, torrents are usually quite slow since there's only few seeders (people who have downloaded the entire package). It will get better speed-wise within a day or so.

As an alternative to the torrents, you can download the files by the mirrors which you will find in the download description at each of the two links. However, in this case you will have to download between 3 and 10 smaller files of about 1 GB. Despite the hassle, this may be the faster option to begin with.

We kindly ask you to seed the files even if you choose to download through the mirrors. This is how:
1. Download the files from the mirrors and place them in the same folder.
2. When done downloading, download the torrent file and open it with uTorrent.
3. uTorrent will ask you where you want to download the file to. Point it to the folder where you stored the files from the mirror.
4. It will now check whether the files matches the ones it wants to download. When done, it will start seeding (and not re-download). and you will be helping others getting the files faster.

Oh, are you already up? Well, that's great - we have a reward for you: PCM.daily's 2013 DB!

The rather extensive list of features was released a couple of days ago, so there's really not much reason to go into details of the 96 teams, the 63 new races, the hundreds and hundreds selectable equipment parts or any of the other great features that's hiding in PCM.daily's 2013 DB.

So instead, we might as well get straight to the download link. Enjoy!

Keep in mind that this first release is an update that requires quite a lot of previous downloads (Exp Pack 1300, Exp Pack 1400 and 2013 DB Public Beta).

That's not much of an issue for "faithful" PCM.daily DB users, but if you're new to the world of PCM.daily DBs, it's recommended to wait for the full package that will released Wednesday evening.

Update: The file has been packed and is being uploaded. This will be done over night, and the release is therefore pushed to Wednesday morning / afternoon.

While we're making the final changes to the final version of our 2013 DB, we thought it'd be nice to let you know what you're actually waiting for.

As mentioned here and there, the final V1 is not simply a database with bug corrections from the Public Beta. Lluuiiggii has been working hard the last two weeks, and that's amounted to a lot of great additions.

First of all, there's seven new teams to play with, bringing the total to 98. 58 of these are using 2013 graphics. You also get 13 new races compared to the Public Beta along with even more new race routes - in fact, all three Grand Tours now have its 2013 variant. And speaking of variants - well, there's now even more of them. For GTs alone, there's now 29 different race routes.

Among the features I'm pretty sure you will only find in the PCM.daily DB is that ALL secondary sponsors now have its very own set of graphics. If, for example, Saxo Bank withdraws and Tinkoff Bank remains as the sole sponsor, the team will switch to Tinkoff jerseys rather than continuing to use the Saxo Tinkoff jersey. As said, this goes for all co-sponsors in the game.

We've also finally decided to include preview pictures of all the selectable equipment in the database - so now you know what your team will look like before hitting the roads.

There's plenty of other great features in the PCM.daily DB. Discover all of them here along with the list of teams, new races and races with their 2013 race routes.

Release? We're making the final polishments. For example, we're recreating some of those 2013 Tour de France stages that lagged due to enormeous amount of water. We're also hoping to include the 2013 equipment that's set to be released Monday.

We believe it will be worth a few days of wait - and we hope to release PCM.daily's 2013 DB on Tuesday at the latest.