Guerrilla Games has announced plans close the online servers for three of its games next month.
Online servers for Killzone Mercenary, Killzone Shadow Fall (including Intercept Mode) and RIGS: Mechanized Combat League will shut down on June 10, 2025.
Online features, including multiplayer modes, will cease on that date, although single player offline modes will remain playable.
Mercenary and Shadow Fall are the most recently released entries in the Killzone franchise. The former released forVitain September 2013, a couple of months before Killzone Shadow Fall arrived as aPS4launch title.
RIGS: Mechanized Combat League is a first-person shooter sports game released forPlayStationVR in 2016.
Sony“retired” its official Killzone franchise websitein January 2021.
The Killzone series was once one of PlayStation’s flagship franchises, with six instalments released acrossPS3, PS4 and handheld consoles in the nine years following its 2004 debut.
On 13 May 2025, 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 recently releasedHorizon Forbidden Westfor PS4 andPS5, andVGC understands that the studio has fleshed out plans for a trilogy of Horizon gamesin addition to PlayStation VR 2 titleHorizon Call of the Mountain.
Asked in 2017 about the future of the Killzone franchise, then-Guerrilla bossHermen Hulst(nowPlayStation’s head of Worldwide Studios) gave theAcademy of Interactive Arts & Sciencea non-committal answer.
“I get asked that question [about the future of Killzone] a lot through Twitter and other social media channels,” he said.
“It’s really heartwarming to hear that there’s such a strong appetite from the loyal Killzone fanbase. It’s a franchise and universe that we still love with a passion at Guerrilla.
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“It hasn’t been easy doing something so completely different. Whether or not we’ve put a permanent period behind the series, it’s too early to make announcements on that.
“All I can say is that we’ve always loved the Killzone universe and the Killzone series, and we still do. We share that passion for the game with a lot of our fans.”
