According to the Italian website multiplayer.it, Halifax, the Italian distributor of Pro Cycling Manager, will release a special Giro d'Italia 2011 version of Pro Cycling Manager 2010. It's set to be released at the beginning of this year's Giro d'Italia that takes place in May.

With the version, you will get a 2011 database along with the 2011 Giro d'Italia stages. And perhaps more interesting (for the Italian customers), a pair of Italian commentators will make its way to PCM, voiced by Andrea de Luca and the more familiar Paolo Savoldelli.

Obviously, the screenshots aren't really new, neither is the trailer, but hey - it's worth taking a look anyway.

Whether it's enough to persuade the Italians to buy PCM10 - well, that will be interesting.

(Originally, this article confused this announcement with Pro Cycling Manager 2011. You can read the original article by clicking Read More)

Thanks to Emmea for the tip.

Update: As the server admin seems to have forgotten about our little date, we're pushing the server config to tomorrow night.

As we are making some changes to the server configuration, the site will go offline later today.

We expect to make the changes the night between today and tomorrow, but since we're also changing the IP, the site may be unavailable for some people for a longer period of time (in theory, IP changes can take up to 48 hours, but it's usually a matter of 2-8 hours).

Well, well, well - what do we have here?

Due to illness, the release of PCM.daily's 2011 DB Public Beta was postponed, but here you have it: PCM.daily's 2011 DB. It's the Public Beta version, so there may still be a few bugs here and there. That's what we expect you to find.

The 2011 Public Beta includes a lot of new stuff. Obviously, we've updated all the teams, so they have their '11 names and rosters. We've also added some new equipment, including KenL's great work, and in total, we have the 2011 shirts, accessories and logos for 51 teams.

Stage-wise, 16 races have their 2011 profiles, while the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia have some 2011 profiles, but not all. We have also added a lot of the great 1998 stages from PCMNorge's 1998 DB as variants, along with other variants.

Other than that, you also get the features of the Expansion Pack. You can find a list of features here, and although it's not complete, it does give you an idea of what to expect.

We have two versions available: An 2010 -> 2011 Updater, for which you need the Expansion Pack V2 (Full) -- and a Full Version which includes everything you need.

Enough talk for now - on to the downloads:

2010 -> 2011 Public Beta Updater (torrent)
2010 -> 2011 Public Beta Updater (MegaUpload)
2011 Public Beta Full Version (torrent)
2011 Public Beta Full Version (MegaUpload)

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Just a small update regarding the release date of PCM.daily's 2011 DB:

I'm glad to announce that we will release the Public Beta version of PCM.daily's 2011 DB tomorrow. It contains 85 teams with 51 of them having their real 2011 shirts, accessories and logos. Much of the team accessories have been made by KenL who has been a great help in making the graphical part of the DB.

Stage-wise, 16 races have their 2011 profiles. We also have most of the 2011 Giro and about half of the Tour de France (the other half uses stages that are somewhat similar in profile to the stages that we're missing). We've also included a lot of new variants, many stemming from the amazing 1998 DB by PCMNorge.

The first pack to be released tomorrow is a 2010 -> 2011 Updater. It's a self-extracting file that includes everything that you need to update PCM.daily's Expansion Pack V2 to PCM.daily's 2011 DB Public Beta - it also includes the V2.1 Patch.

So if you want to be ready for tomorrow's release, make sure that you have the Expansion Pack V2 (Full).

We're hoping to offer a 2011 Public Beta (Full), but it's still too early to say whether that'll be tomorrow or the day after.

The third and probably last terrain pack for the PCM10 stage editor has now been put up for download.

This pack makes it possible to use the terrain data from the entire Canary Islands, New Zealand, Nepal and parts of India, Bhutan, China, South Korea, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile.
Click here to see a map of what parts of the world the pack is covering.

The file can be downloaded by clicking here