Ubisoft have today released the first content expansion 'Arctic Pack' for the free-to-play shooter, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online. The Arctic Pack features a host of new content including a new Conquest mode map, Tomsk-9, as well as six new weapon variants, three new headgear variants and 2 new body armor variants.

Set in a nuclear reprocessing complex deep within Russia’s Arctic circle, Tomsk-9 is Ghost Recon Online’s largest map. Featuring both indoor and outdoor environments as well as a symmetrical map design which will offer players a balanced competitive game play flow.

The GRO community has also played a major role in shaping the development of this update, by helping identify over 300 balance changes, improvements, and bug fixes that have gone into the Arctic Pack along with the new content.

All items in the Arctic Pack are available for purchase in-game with Requisition Points (which are earned by playing the game) and Ghost Coins (which are bought with real money). The Arctic weapon variants will be available for a 2 week period, while the Arctic headgear and body armor variants will be available on a permanent basis in the in-game Store.

The Wii U version of Ghost Recon Online has been put "on hold", Ubisoft has confirmed. Talking to VideoGamer.com earlier today, Ghost Recon Online's producer Theo Sanders revealed that development of the Wii U version had ceased to offer the team the opportunity to focus "completely on the PC version".

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Subliminal message warning: Ubisoft have just announced the closed beta of Ghost Recon Online kicks off next month. That month? March. See how I snuck it into the headline? You already knew before you got to the story.

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