Guerrilla has announced that it will be shutting down multiplayer servers for three games on August 12. The games are Killzone: Mercenary, Killzone Shadow Fall, and RIGS: Mechanized Combat League.

"On 12 August 2022, online servers for Killzone: Mercenary, Killzone Shadow Fall (including Intercept Mode) and RIGS: Mechanized Combat League will shut down," Guerrilla says in a Tweet. "Online features (including online multiplayer modes) will cease on that date. Single player offline modes remain available."

On 12 August 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

Killzone: Mercenary first launched in September 2013 exclusively on the PlayStation Vita. The game's servers went down briefly back in 2020 without any advance notice or reason given, but they were eventually restored. However, they'll be closing for good soon.

Killzone Shadow Fall was released in November 2013 for PlayStation 4. Last year, Killzone’s website was “retired” but did not affect any online multiplayer functions at the time.

RIGS is a VR title that was released back in 2016. In our RIGS: Mechanized Combat League review, we said, "Rigs: Mechanized Combat League brings fast, intense multiplayer action to the PlayStation VR, but with a few notable caveats. While there was enough variety in the mechs to keep me playing through a full season of matches, the sub-par visuals distract, and big matchmaking issues made online wait times unbearable."

This isn’t the only game from Sony that suffered from server shutdowns recently. The last one that occurred was for multiple LittleBigPlanet games last year. Additionally, the servers for Everybody's Golf will shut down on September 30.

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Cool cats Cardy, Dale, and Matt are feline good and ready to talk about new cat puzzle-adventure game, Stray. Alongside that, we have hands-on impressions of the upcoming Saints Row reboot, the new Resident Evil Netflix series, belated Nier: Automata thoughts and game of the year – PowerWash Simulator. There’s also the return of the 1-star movie game where we channel more unhinged film opinions and of course, your feedback.

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Avengers: Endgame and Infinity War directors the Russo brothers don't have any official plans to create a Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series but they do have a fun suggestion for one.

Speaking to TechRadar, Anthony Russo said he and his brother "love longform storytelling. That's why television has always appealed to us," plus movies based on long-running comics like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. "We have a passion for TV shows and we love Marvel, but we don't have any plans to do something with them, either on the series or movie front.

When asked which heroes they'd pull from the comics, however, Joe Russo said: "Whatever we say, we're going to get asked about it 100 times over the next week. So let's pick the Great Lakes Avengers." That idea is on the more whimsical side as they suggested creating a show around the Great Lakes Avengers, that features characters including Mr. Immortal, Dinah Soar, Big Bertha, Flatman, and Doorman. Though the group was trained by Hawkeye, and has fought alongside Deadpool, they're not taken as seriously as their New York counterpart.

Russo was clearly having some fun with this, as they also suggested the story of 'Cheese-Man'. This dairy dynamo isn't actually a comic book character, and likely just a joke about the team's base in Wisconsin as "America's Dairyland", but he would likely match the style of the Great Lakes Avengers.

Thing is, given the Russos' stellar back catalogue in the MCU, we'd actually welcome their take on the GLA.

Disney is exploring the lighter side of the Marvel universe through its TV shows,with the likes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law being released just next month on August 17. If they do return to a deeper and more serious tone, the Russo Brothers have also expressed their love for the Secret Wars series of comics.

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Disney reportedly wants to further bolster its streaming service by adding a new Doctor Who series to its library of entertainment.

Sources close to the matter have allegedly told Bloomberg that Disney is in the "early stages" of discussions with the BBC about the possibility of acquiring the streaming rights to a new series of Doctor Who. It comes at a time when the company is apparently looking to bulk up its current roster of programming on Disney+ with "established entertainment properties."

If a deal can be reached between the two companies, then the long-running sci-fi show would find its future season airing on Disney+ as well as the BBC, while every other series that has aired since Doctor Who's revival in 2005 is currently available to stream on HBO Max. That includes Season 13, also known as Doctor Who: Flux, which arrived on the platform just last month.

The BBC announced in May that Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa had been cast as Doctor Who's fourteenth Doctor, replacing Jodie Whittaker after her three-season tenure inside the TARDIS. Whittaker will star in one final episode later this year before she passes the torch to Gatwa for the 14th season, which is expected to air sometime in 2023.

Fortunately, that gives people a bit of time to get caught up on the modern era of the British sci-fi show before Gatwa's arrival. Check out IGN's guide on how to stream every episode of Doctor Who, including those starring previous incarnations of the Doctor such as Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, and Jodie Whittaker.

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Not sure if you've noticed, but the Internet loves cats – so it's not a huge surprise that feline cyberpunk adventure Stray has already built up a modding scene just days after release. But no matter what you expected from Stray mods, you probably didn't think one of them would be based on Heavy Rain.

Over on Nexus Mods, you can already find ways to reskin your playable cat in a number of styles (including looking a bit like Garfield, and with an eyepatch). But nestled among the many reshades is a mod simply called JASON by creator Gibrietas.

JASON has a simple, perfect function – it replaces Stray's manual meowing with the sound of Heavy Rain protagonist Ethan Mars shouting for his lost son. I don't know why I think this is incredible, but I very much do.

https://t.co/Gy8XOLYoho

— Amongst the Catgirls of the Nephren-Ka (@pestilent_one) July 21, 2022

If you don't remember, Heavy Rain was a 2010 Quantic Dream adventure game that begins with a scene in which you can "Press X to Jason", sending out multiple shouts of, well, "Jason!". Now, 12 years later, thanks to the wonders of technology, you can do the same with a very cute cat.

Personally, I think Gibrietas now needs to work on a sequel mod, entitled SHAUN.

Stray arrived this week, and we awarded it an 8/10 review, calling it "a delightful adventure in a dark but endearingly hopeful cyberpunk world, and that’s thanks in no small part to the fact that you are playing as an adorable cat the whole time."

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