You might not remember Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Online, which still surprisingly exists despite being in beta since Summer 2012. The game will be heading to Steam Early Access for PC soon – with news still pending about a full release – but online producer Corey Facteau has attempted to explain the decision to Eurogamer.

“Bringing Ghost Recon Online to Steam has been our goal since the game’s inception. We took the time necessary to reach a quality level that can go head to head with the best online games available today before releasing on Steam.

“As the top shooter for gamers who enjoy team gameplay, we have also seen our audience expand to include MOBA fans, who comprise fifty percent of our user base. To ensure a seamless transition to the new platform, we will use Early Access to fine tune the Ghost Recon Online experience before releasing it to the rest of the world.”

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Responding to a fan’s question, the official Twitter account revealed that the game is still very much on hold:

@kakashishinoda The WiiU version of the game is currently on hold while we focus on developing the PC version.

— Ghost Recon Online (@GhostRecOnline) May 17, 2013

It’s not as though Ubisoft is giving the Wii U the shaft though. The publisher has continuously supported the console with launch titles, and will be releasing several next gen titles for the console including Watch_Dogs, Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Assassin’s Creed IV. Heck, it even released an exclusive Challenge mode for Rayman Legends to make up for the fact the game had been delayed for multiplatform development.

Nonetheless, fans interested in seeing how the game fares on Nintendo’s console will need to wait a good while longer. And by that we mean an indefinite amount of time. Stay tuned.

Featuring spangly new content which contains: a new conquest map called Tomsk-9, 6 new weapon , 3 headgear and 2 body armor variants.

Tomsk-9 takes place in a nuclear reprocessing plant, deep in the icy wilderness of the Arctic Circle, and it’s GRO’s biggest map yet.

Large portions of this update were crafted by the community themselves, who helped highlight over 300 improvements, including balance and bug fixes, which come as part of the Arctic Pack along with the new content.

All items which come with the Arctic Pack are also available for purchase via Requisition Points and Ghost Coins. The weapon variants will be available for two weeks, whilst headgear and armour will become a permanent fixture in the GRO universe.

Experience the next generation of PC multiplayer shooters with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online. Step into the boots of an elite Ghost and deploy cutting-edge weapons and technology as you link up with your Ghost squad to dominate your enemies on tomorrow’s battlefield. Experience all this and more for Free.

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We introduce you to the Specialist, a master in electronic warfare equipped with Blackout, an energy boost which renders the enemy useless and disoriented as well as A.E.G.I.S which creates an impenetrable shield upon yourself and your surrounding teammates. His job? To tilt the tides of battle.

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Ghost Recon Online will be free-to-play on the PC, and it will be launched alongside Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Interested in knowing more about the latter? Stay tuned for our beta preview soon.

So, Ghost Recon Online is Ubisoft’s attempt at researching the F2P model. They want to experiment and learn more about it, according to Jean-Marc Geoffrey, the game’s creative director.

“We need to learn how it works: how to make free-to-play successful. Maybe even with consoles,” he said to Eurogamer.

“We don’t know how the future will pan out, the business is changing. It’s business design research.”

It will be interesting to see how it pans out because free-to-play is something that is catching on lately with Gable Newell proclaiming recently that DOTA 2 will follow the same model.

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Ubisoft has released a class overview trailer for Ghost Recon Online and it is fantastic. It shows the three soldier classes, namely –  Assault, Specialist and Recon.

The trailer shows in-game gameplay as well, which is quite impressive to look when it comes to visuals. The narration is pretty decent as well.

Discover Ghost Recon Online’s three soldier classes: Assault, Specialist and Recon. Find out more about their class abilities and how to make the most of them on the battlefield.

The game will be released this year for the PC, and is being published by Ubisoft.

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Ghost Recon Online releases later this year for PC and Wii U.

Ubisoft has released a new dev diary for their upcoming game, Ghost Recon: Online.

The video talks about three classes from the game, customization and weapon kits and other things. It looks good, have a look above.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Online comes out later this year on PC and Wii U.