Guerrilla Video games is killing Killzone by shutting down multiplayer servers for 2 video 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 accessible.

RIGS is the newest of the three titles, having launch in 2016, and requires the usage of a PSVR headset. So contemplating the age of all three of them, and the lattermost needing what’s going to quickly turn into an outdated piece of {hardware}, it is not significantly shocking that any of them are shutting down.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 truly 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 also be probably 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 website. In consequence, creating or managing clans in Killzone Shadow Fall turned now not potential, shutting off gamers from an entire facet of the sport, even when solely minute.

Guerrilla is clearly busy with the Horizon sequence, the newest entry, Forbidden West, having launched this February. Our 4 star overview mentioned “Horizon: Forbidden West does a terrific job of constructing on the muse that Zero Daybreak laid out; the whole lot is extra lovely, the stakes are – someway – greater, and the flirtations with BioWare-style story concepts reveals simply how a lot of a future this sequence has.”