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SOCOM: Confrontation will be released in the US on October 14 and will cost $39.99 both at retail and on PSN.

There will also be a bundle that includes a Bluetooth headset and some behind the scenes footage.

No word as to when we’ll be seeing this in Europe.

Thanks, PS3F.

By Mike Bowden

We’re being honest if we say we’re not exactly blown away by this, the first trailer we’ve seen fro SOCOM: Confrontation, but the proof will be in the pudding, as it were. The video shows SEALs shooting foreign types in the face with rockets and sniper rifles in what are admittedly lovely environments.

Game’s out in October and is, obviously, a PS3 exclusive.

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PS3F’s posted hands-on impressions of SOCOM: Confrontation here. It looks as though an embargo’s gone up, as IGN’s just posted three new trailers and some fresh shots of the tactical shooter as well. Knock yourself out.

Update: And here’s the official headset, courtesy of Joystiq. It comes bundled with the game.

Update 2: There we go. It’s all from a US press day. See on the US PlayStation blog.

We think we get it now. Run around Mid-Eastern city shooting people. Unless something amazing happens between now and the third quarter, we’ll probably leave SOCOM: Confrontation screens alonw for a while. On GameInfoWire.

On ThreeSpeech. Some decent-sized stuff there, and some art mixed in for good measure. There’s a bunch of renders of the various special forces in the game as well. SOCOM Confrontation ships at the end of the year for PS3.

On Kotaku. This is starting to look much nicer now, showing massive city environments an plenty more detail than earlier screens. It’s down for a November launch.

They’re on HardGame. Looks as though there’s some old stuff mixed in new screens there, but there we are. The tactical shooter’s out in November. Again, expect to hear more on this from the SCEE PlayStation Day this evening.

And here they are, courtesy of Pro-Gamers.fr. They’re taken from an English language magazine, but the piece doesn’t say which one, and there are some new screens in there. Looks quite quirky, to be honest. Maybe we’re just so used to seeing Rainbow Six.

Have a look.

Here. There’s only three of them, but beggars can’t be choosers. Seeing quite a bit on this now. It’s out in September in the US, and we’re still waiting on a European date. Plenty of info here.

SCEE’s officially announced SOCOM: Confrontation, the PS3 update to PlayStation’s in-house squad shooter. Here’s what you’re going to get when it releases later this year:

• Intense online combat experience with up to 32 players delivered in High Definition
• Seven highly detailed maps
• New engine built for PS3 with advanced physics, lighting and ballistics including penetration modelling
• Choice of playing as one of five special forces units: United States Navy SEALs, Special Air Service (SAS, United Kingdom), Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK, Germany), Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE, Spain), 1er Régiment de Parachutistes d’Infanterie de Marine (1er RPIMa, France)
• Unrivalled Community Features with increased clan & ladder support
• Tournaments available at the regional, national and global levels
• Advanced player matching enable players to form teams with their friends and easily join an online game
• Integration with SOCOM.com: Stat tracking, clan management tools, My SOCOM pages and more

Press release after the link. As you can see, there’s no release date, but Gamespress says “November” and we’re not going to argue with that.

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According to this, SOCOM Confrontation will release on September 16 in the US. SCEA has now launched a community title for the PS3 shooter, to be found here. No date for Europe yet, but we’re going to be hearing plenty more on this in the coming months, so never fret.

EGM’s cover story on SOCOM Confrontation’s listed the special forces you can “be” in the game. This is all starting to sound pretty good, really. Apparently players can take roles as either legit commandos or mercenaries, but if you want to play as any of the below you’re going to have to stick to the “goodies”. No release date yet.

• Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEALs, United States)
• Special Air Service (SAS, United Kingdom)
• Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK, Germany)
• Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE, Spain)
• 1er Régiment de Parachutistes d’Infanterie de Marine (1er RPIMa, France)

According to this, the next issue of EGM has a preview of the first SOCOM game for PS3, SOCOM Confrontation, with re-confirmation that the squad-based shooter will have 32-player online fighting. There are a couple of new shots over there as well, but scant else in terms of details. Little is known of the title thus far, apart from the fact its original release date of November 2007 came and went six months ago.

Confrontation was announced in May last year, the 32-player tidbit being in the original press release.