Update, 15th of April, 13:28: Six new screenshots, released by Focus today, have now been added to the screenshot section along with the international cover of PCM10! Thanks to Aroda for the tip.

For those who are eagerly awaiting PCM10, there's some good news: JeuxVideo.com, France's larges gaming site, has published a preview of the game which comes with plenty of new screenshots, both ingame screens and some of the new stage editor that comes with the game. You can see them all in our PCM10 Screenshot section.

Unfortunately, there's no news in the preview by JeuxVideo. They mention the new graphic engine (and repeat that the minimum requirements will be the same as in PCM09 - the recommended settings are, however, higher), the new stage editor, the new 'selected season mode' and a few other of the new features.

March has proved itself to be a very interesting month in the Fantasy Game - and by far the most important of the first 3 months so far, with more points being gained in March than January and February combined. As you will see, it highlights that nobody is ever safe in a position in this game, and similarly nobody can ever be ruled out - 8 teams lost 20 or more places, but 8 other teams managed to gain 20 or more, including one gain of 36 spots.

But lets start with the Rider statistics. Tom Boonen may have been 2nd in both Milan SanRemo and E3 Prijs, but he tops the tables of points scored in March with 553. On 512 is the Tirreno-Adriatico and Settimana Lombarda winner Michele Scarponi, while Freire's Milan SanRemo victory greatly contributed to his tally of of 493. Rodriguez, Paolini, Eisel, Keukeleire, Iglinskiy, Contador and Millar complete the Top 10. Andre Greipel still leads overall, but his quiet month means that Freire and Boonen are both close, with LL Sanchez and Paolini completeing the Top 5.

By far and away the most efficient rider of the month was Jens Keukeleire, a great buy for the 3 teams who had him, and he is now the most efficient rider overall aswell. Infact, the rest of the months Top 5 (Modolo, Eisel, Vanmarcke, Sagan) can all be found in the overall Top 6, with previous leader Dumoulin now 5th.

So, to the team scores. In a close battle for March Honours, Mukk Service OY come top with 2674 pts - they can thank the likes of Boonen, Eisel, Boom and Taaramae - just ahead of Fabulously Subconscious (2611) and Team Skoda (2602). In total, 20 teams scored 2000 points or more, with 92 of the 98 teams all passing 1000. Coming into March, LDF - Velingnews.com held a comfortable 700 point lead, but were only the 38th best team this month. Prior to the KBC De Panne tour, they had even lost the lead, but David Millar's performance was enough to keep them on top - holding off Fabulously Subconscious, Bonnet de Douchebag and Huffy Test Team. Team Swed-Stats climbed up 12 spots to 5th, one of 4 new teams in the Top 10, while those placed 11-15 each gained a minimum of 10 places - Mukk Service OY benefited from winning the month in going from 44th, to 11th.

The new overall Top 10 are:

To see the full standings for teams, riders and efficency, go to the March scores thread. The full overall team rankings are also in the extended version of this news article.

With the preliminary work having started on the second version of PCM.daily's 2010 DB, it's also time to check whether there are anyone out there who are interested in helping out. We have a few 'positions' up:

First of all, we need one or more who follows cycling a lot and knows how the PCM stat system works in order to update the stats to reflect what has happened in the 2010 season so far.

Second of all, we're also working on updating the photos (2010 team photos). In order to have some sort of 'standard', we'd prefer to let one guy do the job, but since it's a rather huge job, we may turn it into a 'community event', like previous years.

Other than that, we are, as always, interested in hearing from anyone who feel that they can contribute. If you do, PM me.

Over the past years, PCM.daily has always made some sort of joke on the 1st of April. Usually, we (try to) fool our members, but this year, we wanted to do something else: to fool other PCM-sites and their members - and we're glad to say that we succeeded.

With the headline "New features in PCM10 announced" (edit: the news article has been deleted from the site and replaced with an explanation to the members), PCMNorge goes on to describe several features which Cyanide has previously denied being part of PCM10, e.g. an extended track mode and "Be a Pro". Why? Because they earlier today received an e-mail which was supposedly from Cyanide .... but in reality was from PCM.daily ;)

The PCMNorge members did seem rather estatic on the news, though. Pellizotti said that it sounded fantastic, although he did express some concerns with the possible amount of bugs. Obkris mentioned that he now looks even more forward to PCM10, while TwaZi thought that the Be a Pro-mode was "Awesome!". Lampre will undoubtely be the most disappointed. He has never looked so much forward to a PCM release, he said on the forum.

But in the end, we're sorry to say this - but we fooled you, PCMNorge!

Happy April Fool's Day everyone. You can see the e-mail that we sent by clicking Read More.

Now into the final week of the month, the transfers for our Fantasy Cycling game open once again. As usual you will have until the end of the month to bring in up to 4 riders into your team, while removing as many as is necessary. Remember that your team always needs to be under budget, and have at least 16 riders - of which 5 or more must be from ProContinental teams. You can check the forum if you need a reminder of your current team line up.

April is a big month in cycling, with numerous top races to consider. With Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix for the cobbles, and also the Ardennes trio of Amstel Gold, Fleche Wallone and Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Vuelta al Pais Vasco and the Tour of Romandie are the month's two ProTour stage races, while the HC races are GP Miguel Indurain, Scheldeprijs and the Presidential Tour of Turkey.

Your changes can be PMed to either Rjc_43 or SportingNonsense, or posted in the comments section here.