When you're waiting patiently for any bit of news on the next installment of your favorite series, even some new screenshots can certainly inspire you to continue waiting.

It's likely that David Seymour of Slant Six Games understands this, as he has revealed a couple of new screenshots of SOCOM: Confrontation. Check them out in the full article, right after the jump.

Developer Slant Six Games just announced that SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Tactical Strike has gone gold and is ready for shipment. The third installment of SOCOM on the Sony PlayStation Portable is slated for release this November 6 in North America, while Europe should get the game at a later date.

Design Director David Seymour mentioned on the blog post with the announcement that eight additional international Special Forces will be playable in SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Tactical Strike. Players will have access to the British SAS, the Australian SAS-R, or the Korean 707th Special Missions Battalion with authentic uniforms and weaponry intact.

Multiplayer which involves up to four players in 2-on-2 skirmishers is possible at T-mobile WiFi Hotspots. It's fortunate that SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Tactical Strike offers a voice chat feature, because you'll be needing some good team play and wits to achieve goals when you hook up with other operatives.

Find the announcement and screens Seymour posted via Read link below.

Quite honestly, Sony can't have an E3 Press Conference without including video game SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation. The video clip below was taken during the said conference and has Slant Six Games Design Director David Seymour talking about the title and its various next-gen features.

Aside from that, Seymour mentioned that there's going to be a downloadable version of SOCOM: Confrontation aside from the already mentioned full retail copy that should be available around Fall. This, he suggested, will have certain advantages since the game is running directly off the the PS3's hard drive.

Fans of the franchise since the last cycle might also want to watch the video until the latter parts as the design director compared Confrontation with the other SOCOM iteration on the PlayStation 2 (PS2).