Mobile

SOCOM Mobile HQ Challenges Players Via Android Phones

Is every moment spent away from SOCOM 4 on the PlayStation 3 a lesson in agony and anxiety? Now available on the Android Market, the SOCOM Mobile HQ app is the free cure to what ails you, as long as you’re up for a little challenge.


June 21, 2011
PlayStation

SOCOM 4 Pro Assault Pack Gives You More Guns, More Places To Shoot

Zipper Interactive has released a new DLC pack for SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals. The “Pro Assault Pack” includes three new maps and two new guns and is absolutely free, for registered SOCOM Pro members. [SOCOM Blog]


April 23, 2011
PlayStation

SOCOM 4′s Silent And Deadly Stealth Play

Slinking through shadows solo, tossing bullet casings to distract, hiding bodies: SOCOM 4′s few stealth levels offer a completely new take on the nine-year-old squad-based shooter series.


March 31, 2011
PlayStation

SOCOM 4 Turns The Hurt Locker Into PlayStation 3 Sport

War video games let us pretend we’re in movies. They may let us pretend we’re in actual war, but come on, not really.


March 29, 2011
PlayStation

If You’re Gonna Play SOCOM 4, Use A Shotgun

SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals is an upcoming tactical shooter for the PS3 that is in multiplayer beta. Want to know a good tactic? Use the shotgun.


March 18, 2011
PlayStation

Teabag? How ‘Bout Roboting Over Someone’s Corpse?

SOCOM has always been a great shooter. It has also always had wonderful ways to humiliate the people to take down with headshots, shotgun blasts and pew, pew, pewing.


March 8, 2011
PlayStation

SOCOM 4 Rewards You For Playing As A Woman

Forty-Five is SOCOM 4′s answer to stealth, a South Korean covert operative that can sneak up on enemies or take them out from afar. Park “Forty-Five” Yoon-Hee is also the game’s only playable female character. But it’s because of her stealthy abilities that Forty-Five gets a couple of her own trophies.


February 26, 2011
PlayStation

SOCOM 4 Strategically Releases $US150 Full Deployment Edition

Sony gives SOCOM fans a chance to gear up for the new age of motion-controlled shooters with the $US150 Full Deployment Edition of SOCOM 4. What’s inside?


February 25, 2011
PlayStation

Create Your Own Online Co-Op Campaign In SOCOM 4

SOCOM is a series that’s all about cooperation, and in SOCOM 4 Zipper Interactive hands control of cooperative online multiplayer missions to the players, giving them free reign to create custom co-op campaigns.


February 2, 2011
PlayStation

How To Control SOCOM With The PS3′s Gun

When I played SOCOM 4 today, I controlled it with the forthcoming PlayStation 3 Sharpshooter peripheral, a shell that houses a PlayStation Move. This scheme is not mandatory, but it works. SOCOM developer Ben Jones explains how.