After being released to critical despair, major network issues, and gamer distaste, Socom Confrontation still lives. Now that it's had a load of updates, corrections, and patches, it’s finally playable, and coming up on it's one year birthday, Socom Confrontations is getting it’s first taste of DLC in the form of the Cold Fronts Map pack.

The new update is allegedly Loaded with new features and content, it also has some of you faviorate maps for previous Socom games, re-master in PS3 goodness. The update is also said to have everything form new attachments, new weapons, Game modes, and even the music has been updated, most importantly, it  has new trophies to keep you in the hunt. Theirs no official releases date, as more info is forth coming, and other than the new Cold Front Maps, the re-mastered maps have yet to be named. The full press releases is listed below(via the Playstation blog), so dust of your copy of Socom, or re-download that digital one, and get ready for some old school shoot-em up.

Kit yourself out in snow gear and fight your way through blizzard conditions, joining a team of mercenaries or a squad from one of the world’s top Special Forces regiments including the Russian Spetsnaz.

Try your hand at Arms Run, a new game mode that features dynamically placed missile launchers that must be activated or destroyed, depending on which side you’re fighting for.

Employ the new thermal vision scope weapon attachment to track your enemies’ heat signatures – vital in the dark and useful in daylight for picking out white camouflaged adversaries. In addition, we have new primary weapons to make use of and new attachments.

All told, this pack will have:

• New Russian / Eastern European Area of Operation
• Snow setting complete with snow effects, new snow gear and camo for both the Special Forces and Mercenaries, and thermal vision
• New ARMS RACE gameplay mode
• 5 New Maps: Uprising, Entrapment, Blizzard, Night Stalker, Vigilance
• All new mercenaries characters with new looks and new VO.
• New Special Forces squad, the Russian Spetsnaz
• Gun turrets emplacements
• New music
• All new character specialization/progression system
• Allows players to pick a primary and secondary specialization and unlock new equipment exclusive to those specializations
• New weapons, including: 3 new weapons, 6 enhanced versions of weapons available as part of the new weapons specialization system, 2 new weapon attachments (including the thermal scope), 5 enhanced versions of weapon attachments also available as part of the new weapons specialization system.
• 2 new grenade launcher ammo types (flash and smoke)
• New Trophies

This pack will be available for download via the Playstation Network for $14.99.

Stand by. More information on this COLD FRONT DLC will be coming your way very soon.