A long running movie-based MMO is about to take the red pill and enter the real world of oblivion. Sony Online Entertainment has announced that The Matrix Online will shut down its servers on July 31. Originally developed by Monolith and published by Sega in March 2005, the game transitioned to Sony Online's Seattle offices just a few months after its launch.

In a note on the game's message boards, it was announced that Matrix Online players will not be billed again for playing the game after June 1 and players who have multi-month subscriptions or paid for their play time with game cards will have refund checks mailed out to them. Developers are promising, however, that the game will end with a big in-game event.