Guerrilla Games is killing Killzone by shutting down multiplayer servers for two games

All issues should come to an finish, this time the multiplayer servers for a few Killzone titles, and RIGS: Mechanized Fight League.

Earlier this week, Guerrilla introduced on Twitter that on-line servers can be shutting down for a few Killzone video games. “On 12 August 2022, on-line servers for Killzone: Mercenary, Killzone Shadow Fall (together with Intercept Mode) and RIGS: Mechanized Fight League will shut down. On-line options (together with on-line multiplayer modes) will stop on that date,” reads the tweet. However single participant modes will nonetheless be out there.

RIGS is the latest of the three titles, having launch in 2016, and requires using a PSVR headset. So contemplating the age of all three of them, and the lattermost needing what’s going to quickly grow to be an outdated piece of {hardware}, it is not significantly shocking that any of them are shutting down.

Killzone: Mercenary, the penultimate entry within the sequence, additionally got here out on the now very defunct PS Vita, so it is really fairly shocking that the sport nonetheless had any on-line options in any respect. And Killzone Shadowfall was a launch title for the PS4, which can be doubtless now the final title within the franchise.

The beginning of 2021 noticed Sony retiring the official Killzone franchise web site, now main customers to the generic PlayStation web site. In consequence, creating or managing clans in Killzone Shadow Fall turned now not potential, shutting off gamers from a complete facet of the sport, even when solely minute.

Guerrilla is clearly busy with the Horizon sequence, the latest entry, Forbidden West, having launched this February. Our 4 star overview stated “Horizon: Forbidden West does an important job of constructing on the muse that Zero Daybreak laid out; all the pieces is extra lovely, the stakes are – by some means – increased, and the flirtations with BioWare-style story concepts reveals simply how a lot of a future this sequence has.”