Killzone Remake Rumoured in Early Development, People Can Fly Tipped to Build It

Killzone might finally be crawling out of storage. According to a new report from MP1st, a Killzone project is sitting in the very early stages of production right now, with Guerrilla Games pairing up with a studio outside PlayStation’s own family of developers to get it built.

MP1st says it has learned that a new Killzone project is in the very early stages of production, though an official announcement isn’t expected anytime soon. The outlet reports Guerrilla Games is working with an external studio on something that’s either a remaster or a full remake. Nobody’s confirmed which game in the series is getting the treatment, but everyone’s already guessing.

Fans have been arguing for years about whether Killzone even deserves a comeback, and this report has that debate right back at full volume:

People Can Fly’s Project Delta Lines Up With the Rumour

The name doing the rounds for the “external studio” is People Can Fly, the Polish team behind Bulletstorm and Outriders. That’s not a wild guess pulled from nowhere.

In March 2025, PlayStation and People Can Fly signed an agreement to co-develop a title codenamed Delta, based on an existing PlayStation IP. That filing described the deal as entering “production of a prototype of a new video game codenamed Project Delta (the ‘Product’), based on intellectual property rights belonging to [the] Publisher.” MP1st says what it’s heard strongly indicates PCF will be in charge of this new Killzone, though it couldn’t get definitive confirmation.

If it holds up, Killzone would slot into a busy People Can Fly slate. The studio’s already juggling Project Florence with 2K, alongside separate projects tied to Krafton and Microsoft licenses. That’s a lot of plates spinning for a mid-sized studio, remake or not.

Why the Original 2004 PS2 Game Is the Favourite Pick

Nobody’s named the actual game being rebuilt. MP1st itself says it hasn’t been specified which title in the franchise is being updated, though it reckons common sense points to the original 2004 entry as the most sensible choice.

The publication couldn’t confirm whether the game is technically a remake or a remaster, and cautioned the project is early enough that plans could still change, though the original 2004 Killzone would be an obvious candidate for modernisation. Killzone hasn’t had a fresh main-series entry since Shadow Fall launched on PS4 back in 2013, and that game’s online servers went dark in August 2022.

We’d put money on the PS2 original too. It’s the entry with the most name recognition, the one people still call a “Halo killer” in comment sections, and the cheapest to justify pitching to Sony brass compared with rebuilding three console generations of sequels.

Horizon Hunters Gathering’s Rework Could Push Killzone Back

Timing is the messiest part of this story. MP1st was told this Killzone project was supposed to be Guerrilla’s next focus after Horizon Hunter’s Gathering, with some of the team already allocated to it, but after a recent report that title was rebooted due to negative feedback, fixing that game is now the studio’s priority.

That overhaul was separately reported in August, when Bloomberg said Guerrilla had been reworking Horizon Hunters Gathering since June, shifting the plan away from its original live-service structure toward a smaller, more traditional cooperative multiplayer game with a story component. That leaves part of Guerrilla pivoting back to Killzone once work on Hunter’s Gathering wraps up.

And where does the mainline Horizon series fit into all this? MP1st’s understanding is that Horizon 3 will actually come after the next Killzone project, though given how early things are, it’s not ruling out plans changing. That’s a genuinely odd running order for one of PlayStation’s biggest studios, and it tells you how much internal shuffling has gone on this year alone.

Sony’s Silence and a Franchise That Won’t Stay Dead

Sony and Guerrilla have said nothing official about any of this, and MP1st isn’t claiming a reveal is close. Killzone rumours have flared up and fizzled out before, including a 2022 leak that flatly called the series dead.

Our view: this one carries more weight than the usual “it’s dead” or “it’s coming back” whispers, simply because it’s tied to a real, publicly filed development agreement rather than an anonymous tweet. That doesn’t make it a lock, but it’s the closest thing to a paper trail Killzone fans have had in over a decade.

If a remake of the 2004 original is genuinely what’s on the table, expect a long wait before anything’s shown. Guerrilla’s attention is still tied up fixing Horizon Hunters Gathering, and that project has no confirmed release window of its own yet.