For those who use Steam, it is now possible to download Pro Cycling Manager 2012 on it. The 47 Achievements that we first saw last year are now fully integrated into Steam aswell.

Of course, we would prefer it if you downloaded it from the official website, or ordered the disc version, through the affiliate links that help us keep the site running.

The Velogames Fantasy Tour de France is soon upon us and our annual PCM.Daily league has been already set-up so come and join this hot competition now. Every team picks 9 riders at a cost of 100points. That's it. You then watch and enjoy, and possibly even pray sometimes that your chosen riders do well at the Tour. Good luck everyone !

The code for the PCM.daily league is 22093151. Make sure to join today before it's too late! See the Forum Thread for more information about the rules & the scoring system as well as joining our daily conversations about riders, the teams and Tour de France in general.

Edit: To clarify, Cyanide have not ruled out it being possible to play online with custom databases, it will just take some time!

Cyanide have responded to criticism over the removal of the old multiplayer mode in favour of the new Armada mode, after they completely rebuilt the online mode.

The good news is that they are working on the possibility to play races with real teams. The bad news is that this will still not allow for the use of custom databases - e.g. ladder databases or PCMdaily's own databases. So the fake names for many riders, and the stats that come with the game, will continue to be the only DB that can be used online for the foreseeable future - and it still won't be possible to conduct the many popular online championships across the PCM community.

In terms of Armada mode, they insist that the new system will eventually bring many more possibilities for online play - although it does not seem to be the case for now - and they will continue to work to improve Armada. They are looking into a system where players can agree on the speed of play (x2, x4 etc) to avoid the current system where races are played at x1 speed throughout.

A second patch is expected soon to fix a major problem found in career mode - where all riders have the same statistics. e.g. Cavendish is as good in mountains as Contador.

This probem has been identified and fixed by Cyanide, and the patch is due asap.

The first patch has been released by Cyanide.

Go straight to the download here.