PS4's June Purge Kills Warzone, Battlefield Hardline

"We slowly start to see the phasing out of PS4 approximately 13 years since launch." That line, buried in Push Square's June delisting roundup, is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Because while June's list of PS4 casualties isn't enormous, the names on it tell you exactly where the platform stands: the wind-down is real, and two of the biggest shooter franchises of the last decade are leading the exit.

Call of Duty: Warzone's PS4 version gets delisted on 4th June, according to the breakdown. If you've already got the client downloaded, you can keep playing until roughly November, when Activision plans to kill online services entirely. The publisher hasn't locked in a specific shutdown date, but it's tied to the launch of Season 1 for the new Modern Warfare 4, which is due out on 23rd October. Based on how long it took Black Ops 7 to kick off its first season, November lines up. The in-game store within the PS4 client gets pulled even sooner, on 25th June, though Battle Pass progression will still function until the full shutdown.

I've been expecting this one for a while, but the timeline is still aggressive. Warzone on PS4 went from fully supported to delisted to dead in the span of a few months. If you're still running a PS4 as your primary console and Warzone was your go-to, you're effectively being told to upgrade or move on. That's the reality of a 13-year-old platform, but it stings when the game you're losing is a live-service title that was actively selling you cosmetics weeks ago.

Hardline Finally Goes Dark

Battlefield Hardline's PS4 version loses online services on 22nd June. The game was already delisted in May, and the PS3 version is already offline, so this is the final step in a long goodbye. Hardline was always the odd one out in the Battlefield lineup, a cops-and-robbers spin on the formula that never quite found the same audience as Battlefield 4 or Battlefield 1. But it had its fans, and losing another multiplayer shooter's servers is never painless for the people still playing.

Beyond the shooters, Horizon Chase Turbo gets delisted from the PS Store on 1st June, including its DLC packs like Senna Forever. Push Square reports this is connected to the layoffs at Epic Games. Existing owners keep their copies, and Horizon Chase 2 on PS5 and PS4 is unaffected. Pinball FX and Pinball M (recently renamed Pinball FX Midnight) will remain on the store but stop receiving new DLC and updates from 1st June.

Compared to the wave of delistings that hit in March and April, June is relatively quiet. But the Warzone delisting carries more weight than a dozen smaller titles disappearing. It's one of the most-played free-to-play games of the last five years being ripped off a platform that still sits in millions of living rooms. The PS4 era isn't ending with a single dramatic cutoff; it's dying game by game, server shutdown by server shutdown. Warzone and Hardline just happen to be the ones going this month.