It’s well known, all things come to an end, and video games are no exception to this rule. Especially when talking about an industry as evolving and expensive as this one. Killzone Shadow Fall on PS4, Killzone Mercenary on PS Vita, as well as RIGS (the VR episode developed by late Guerilla Cambridge) will have their servers shut down effective August 22, 2022, announced Guerrilla Games.
End clap for the remains of a cult series
On August 12, 2022, online servers for Killzone: Mercenary, Killzone Shadow Fall (including Intercept Mode) and RIGS: Mechanized Combat League will shut down. Online features (including online multiplayer modes) will cease on that date. Single player offline modes remain available
— Guerrilla (@Guerrilla) July 22, 2022
It was inevitable, but the news has today been made public by Guerrilla Games. The servers of the last Killzone will therefore be closed from August 22, making any multiplayer function inaccessible on them. The studio’s cult franchise has been able to keep itself quite discreet in recent years, to the benefit of a certain Horizon the latest iteration of which was released a few months ago.
There was already water in the gas since at the beginning of 2021, sony had announced the pure and simple closure of the official site of the saga. What to put the chip in the ear as for a drastic setting aside of a license having known its apogee with Killzone 2 and 3 on PS3, in 2009 and 2011 respectively.
We bid them farewell too, not to mention that Guerrilla is not done with multiplayer since in September 2021, job offers had flowered within the studio for a new project focused on the multi on which Simon Larouche, former multiplayer designer of Killzone 2 and of Rainbow Six Siege, currently participating since 2018.
We are waiting to know more about this new project, and who knows, maybe Killzone will resurface one day or another. Nothing is less sure.