The studio that made the SOCOM series went kaput in early 2012. Its alumni re-formed into Special Operations Forces Studios and now bring you H-Hour: World's Elite, which, as this video shows, is right in their wheelhouse of third-person tactical military shooters.
Womp, womp: Sony has announced that SOCOM 4 and MAG, the two military shooters that never managed to become quite as successful as they would've liked, will be losing online multiplayer support early next year.
As first reported last week by Kotaku, Zipper Interactive, the studio behind PS3-exclusive shooters like MAG and the SOCOM series, has been closed.
Our previous glimpses at Zipper Interactive's Handheld social shooter focused on Unit 13's firefights and social network elements. But a new demo video from the CES floor focuses on the sneakier side of thing in by highlighting the military action title's Covert missions.
People love Nathan Drake. And it's safe to say that Uncharted: Golden Abyss will be the premiere adventure title for the Vita. However, it's looking like Unit 13 -- from Zipper Interactive, the developer behind SOCOM and MAG -- will the one you'll want to sate that thirst for Rainbow Six-style antics.
Here's a look at the upcoming portable from the makers of the SOCOM games. You'll see how the same kind of tactical focus has been revisited and rebuilt for a portable and more social experience, as previously noted by our own Stephen Totilo. With the fact that the Vita's a dual-stick handheld, this could be a shooter that feels like the ones made for consoles do, but one with intriguing network features that make it stand apart, too. Unit 13 will hit during PlayStation Vita's launch window, which opens on Feb. 22 of next year.
Unit 13 is the new shooter from Zipper Interactive, the studio behind most of the SOCOM games.
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.
Scuttlebutt has it that the Sony Computer Entertainment studio Zipper Interactive, maker of combat shooters MAG and the SOCOM series, lost several employees in a round of layoffs today. Reached for comment, a Sony spokesperson confirmed layoffs at Zipper, characterizing them as "normal business practice and a result of cutting back on production resources after the launch of two major franchises." Sony would not specify how many positions were lost.
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.
Players picking up SOCOM 4 for the PlayStation 3 on April 19 get a bonus in the form of early access to the Resistance 3 beta test. Just make sure the front of the box looks like this.
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.
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.
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.
Delayed shooter SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs is coming to the PlayStation 3—with PlayStation Move support—this April.
