Okay so while the title Weekly News may be stretching it a bit thin - a year since #76 - the Weekly News returns, for one week at least.

Tour de France Photos
Missing the Tour de France already? Check out our Cycling Photos where lagetcher has uploaded 61 photos from throughout the race. From stage starts, to rest days, to the cobbled stage, to my personal favourite of the sprint finish of Stage 5.

Isolated Buildings
The updated Stage Editor for PCM10, while a great improvement in many aspects, was missing many of the Isolated Buildings from previous games. But fear not, as Laurent has converted many of those to work in PCM10 - including the Bernabeu Stadium, and London Monuments. You can download them from this topic, where you can also see some of the work miya has been posting on the PPDB forum.

PPDB Databases
Speaking of PPDB - from their forum you can download their two latest releases for both PCM10 and PCM09. Version 4 of their PCM10 database is updated for the latest patch - but looks set to be PPDB's last effort for the latest game, while they have also released their 2010 DB for PCM09.

Full Cycling Manager
Also released is a French project called Full Cycling Manager with features including 148 teams, new scouting areas, updated stats, and new races added.

Variants in Progress
A number of interesting projects are currently in progress to take advantage of Cyanide having finally readded the variant function to the game. Roturn has made 16 stages so far in his Tour de France variant, the 2008 route, while two fantasy Giro d'Italia variants are being made - Maethius is 16 stages in, while emmea90 will post all of his stages at once (although is currently on holiday). It's not just Variants being made though, a mixture of fantasy and real races are also being made and posted in our PCM10: Stages forum.

Fantasy Betting
Don't forget to keep getting your weekly PCM$ through the link on the top right hand side of the page. An overall bet for the Eneco Tour is currently up, while there will hopefully be plenty of bets for the Vuelta a Espana, starting later this month.

With the release of the final patch for PCM2010, patch 1.0.3.0, an update to the pack was needed to make it fully compatible with the game. Instead of just updating it to patch 1.0.3.0, we also added a couple of new stuff, though:

First of all, lots of stages have been released and included with the update, including the first four stages of the Tour Down Under and the entire Tour of California - both of which have been very much requested by the community.

In addition to that, we've fixed the bugs that have been reported so far, added some new national champion shirts ... and yes, variants!

Since there are still no complete variant tours, we've made 1 variant for Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and the Vuelta a España by mixing existing stages with some of the fantasy stages provided by the community members. For example, the 2011 Tour de France now has an Alpe d'Huez stage and finishes on Champs Elysees with a time trial. We've also made a variant for Tour de Suisse which basically uses the existing stages, but in a different order and with an all-new uphill time trial. Lastly, there are variants for the World Championship and the World ITT Championship, including the real 2011 profiles for the World Championship in Copenhagen next year.

You will have to restart your career to benefit from most of the changes. Also keep in mind that you need the PCM.daily Expansion Pack before installing this one.

As always, there's a Bug Report Thread. Find it here. For the full list of features in the PCM.daily DB, check this thread.

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Short update: Cyanide employee has stated that this is the very last patch for PCM unless other major problems come along. The stage patch is expected to be released around the 20th of August.

Today, another beta patch was released by Cyanide. Variants are now useable by the game, but no actual variants are added by the patch, so you will have to add some made by yourself or by the community.

These are the most important fixes included in the patch:
- crashes at the end of the races for Win7+Max Details configs.
- multiplayers issues + intermediate sprints for ladder (+ 5 new races)
- some small career fixes
- comeback of the variants for the career mode (for community packs)

Click "Read more" to see the full change list.

Download:
Update from version 1.0.0.0
Update from version 1.0.2.2

A new feature in PCM10 is the Stage Editor, it is much easier to use than the previous editor, but however takes a bit of getting used to. So here we are, helping you to use the editor.

In installments we will be exploring how to make a PCM10 stage, our first installment is for absolute beginners and really does teach the basics, how to make a route without any scenery, towns or intersections.

So if you are new to the editor, or just want to know how to use it, Click Here and download the first PDF file and the GPX file as we make a route from Calais to Boulogne-Sur-Mer in France.

Update, 31st of July: Unfortunately, it will take a few more days to fix. We're working on it. It should be fixed on the 3rd of August.

Over the past day or so, the server has been quite a bit slower than usually. Due to vacation time, it hasn't been dealt with as fast as it'd usually be, but we expect it to be solved at some point today.

We're sorry for the inconvenience.