Sony May Be Bringing Killzone Back After 13 Years, Report Suggests

Killzone may be coming back after 13 years away, according to a new report from MP1st.

MP1st reports that Guerrilla Games will work with an outside studio to bring the science fiction shooter franchise back to life. The project is said to be very early in development, according to the report.

What The Report Says

The report claims the project would most likely be a remaster or remake of one of the existing Killzone games. MP1st points to 2004’s original Killzone as the most likely candidate for that treatment. But the report also says it’s possible the project could grow into something bigger, a more substantial reboot of the series rather than a simple remaster of an old game.

PlayStation signed a joint development agreement with People Can Fly, the studio behind Outriders, back in March 2025. That project carries the name Delta. MP1st reports that Delta is based on an existing PlayStation IP. The studio could make sense as a candidate for bringing Killzone back, given that existing agreement, though that link remains pure conjecture. Nothing ties the two projects together beyond speculation.

Guerrilla’s Work On Horizon

Guerrilla Games is at present focused on Horizon Hunter’s Gathering, an ongoing multiplayer project built around the Horizon franchise. That project has reportedly been rebooted after it failed a recent trial run with people brought in to test it early.

Kotaku has previously reported that a true sequel to Horizon Forbidden West is still many years away, since most of the studio is working on the upcoming multiplayer game instead. That means most of Guerrilla’s people are occupied with Horizon Hunter’s Gathering rather than a new Horizon story game.

It is not clear how a Guerrilla collaboration with an outside studio on a Killzone remaster or reboot would fit alongside the studio’s existing plans and schedule. MP1st’s report does not say whether this new Killzone project would require Guerrilla to move people away from Horizon Hunter’s Gathering, or whether the outside studio would handle most of the actual work involved. The report leaves that question open.

Killzone’s Long Absence

The last new game in the Killzone series was Killzone: Shadow Fall, a launch game for PS4 that came out in 2013. PlayStation has not gotten a new Killzone game in the main series since then, a distance that now reaches back 13 years to the franchise’s last major title.

The series once sat among PlayStation’s own core franchises, alongside other big names made inside Sony’s studios. Sony has since turned more of its attention and resources toward large, open worlds and the games built around them, and Killzone has sat quiet as that change took place across the company’s lineup.

Here is where things stand with the series’ older games and whether people can still get to them today:

1. The first three main Killzone games came together on PS3, gathered into one collection for owners of that console.
2. That collection cannot be played on PS5.
3. Killzone 1, originally a PS2 game, has not gotten the classic treatment as part of PS Plus, meaning it has never been added to that subscription service’s library of older titles for members to play.

That leaves much of the franchise’s history hard to reach on current hardware, even as reports now suggest Sony wants to bring it back in some form. Anyone hoping to play through the series from the start on a PS5 today would have a hard time doing so through official means, since so much of it sits outside easy reach.

Nothing in this report has been confirmed by Sony or Guerrilla Games directly. The account comes entirely from MP1st’s reporting, and key details, including which outside studio would actually partner with Guerrilla, whether the project becomes a remaster or a full reboot, and how it would fit into Guerrilla’s broader plans, remain not known for now. Until Sony or Guerrilla speaks publicly on the matter, the shape of any Killzone comeback stays a question of report and speculation rather than confirmed fact.

Source: kotaku.com

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