As you might expect, Cyanide are currently working on the database for the Pro Cycling Manager 2012 game - and they have contacted us on Twitter looking for any Danish, Norwegian, German or Eastern European helpers to help them on the database.

Their criteria is as follows:
- Can communicate in French or English
- Have a good overall knowledge of the PCM11 game e.g. how the different stats affects the racing
- Good knowledge of the smaller continental teams and lesser known riders
- Follow race results from WorldTour to .2, for this year and previous years

We already know that the game will now be split into WorldTour, ProContinental and Continental divisions with more teams and races - and clearly Cyanide are keen for these new teams to be accurately represented.

If interested, you need to go to the topic on the official forum and then send a message to freire on there.

Several interviews have already been published about Pro Cycling Manager 2012, and while we did know Cyanide planned on a new version of its Tour de France game for XBOX and Playstation, neither of the two games had been officially confirmed by Focus.

Well, that has been changed now.

Both have been confirmed in a press release by Cyanide today. The press kit also comes with the official covers, logos and info sheets of both games. Nothing really new is revealed, but there's five screenshots of the Tour de France game.

It does appear, though, that Cyanide have revealed the new "play mode" they talked about in one interview:

"Brand new multiplayer mode with scheduled competitions to challenge friends online. Assemble your dream team by collecting rider and equipment "cards" and fight for victory in intense multiplayer games!"

You can download the entire press kit here. You can see the five screenshots of Tour de France 2012 right here.

The Nordic supplier of the Pro Cycling Manager games have added a page to their website for PCM12, confirming details for the game that is said to be released on the 29th June.

It contains the details that will presumably be shown on the back of the cover, and many of it is information that we have already learnt will be involved with the game.

For the career mode, more teams and races are included to accomodate the new division added to the game, while work has been done on a season planner, young riders and training camps that allow you to preview major Grand Tour stages.

In the 3D mode, the game interface has been redesigned and improvement have been made to the AI - while it appears that it will now be possible to play National Championships outside of Career mode.

Click Read More to see the full feature list.

The 2012 Pro Cycling Manager season begins with our spring classics. 5 races, 3 nights, who will come out on top?

The idea is that we will race the 5 April classics (Flanders, Roubaix, Amstel, Fleche and Liege) over 3 consecutive nights before crowning a victor based on Team classification.

These sessions will only run if we get a minimum number of competitors so sign up today!

If you ask me, it's long overdue, but as you say: Better late than never.

Today - two months before the release - Cyanide has released the very first screenshot of Pro Cycling Manager 2012.

And while doing so, they also announced that a new rider model is one of the changes in PCM12. It doesn't look like we'll have to worry about new jersey designs, but that's still uncertain.