The Aporia · Gamers using AI to put popular titles like Halo and GTA online for free

Shane Galvin

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Faraday PERSON · 2× Nintendo ORG · 2× ChatGPT ORG · 1× Farady PERSON · 1× Jeffrey Epstein’s PERSON · 1× Luckey Faraday PERSON · 1× OpenAI ORG · 1× Take-Two ORG · 1× The Post ORG · 1× XBox ORG · 1×

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Games that have been put online this way include: Halo: Combat Evolved; GTA: Vice City; GTA: San Andreas; Call of Duty: Black Ops; Skate 3; The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Super Mario 64 and many more.

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2026-10-24 · New York Post

Gamers using AI to put popular titles like Halo and GTA online for free — as companies scramble to shut them down · assertive framing

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Programmers are using AI to resurrect some of the most popular video games of all time and are offering them for free online as gaming giants scramble to shut down the unauthorized projects. asserted

giants → use → projects

The world of “reclaimed games” — where fans reverse-engineer their favorite games by combing through and copying their codes — has been booming thanks to Claude Opus 5.5 and ChatGPT’s Astra. asserted

fans → reclaim → Opus

While decompiling and recomposing code can take a person years to complete, these AI models can do so in just a matter of days. asserted

models → decompile → days

Games that have been put online this way include: Halo: Combat Evolved; GTA: Vice City; GTA: San Andreas; Call of Duty: Black Ops; Skate 3; The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Super Mario 64 and many more. asserted

that → put → Duty

OpenCE is a revamped version of Halo: Combat Evolved that allows you to play the beloved 2001 game with updated graphics and expanded capabilities for free. asserted

you → revamp → graphics

Some programmers have pushed the trend into stranger territory. asserted

programmers → push → territory

One developer created a browser-based Halo-stylized recreation of Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Saint James island, complete with a nautical-themed temple. asserted

developer → create → temple

AI researcher Luckey Faraday used OpenAI’s GPT Astra model to code a browser-playable version of Call of Duty, which he posted on X. One version Faraday released was Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which was programmed to look like Minecraft and could be played in a browser. X briefly suspended his account after several weeks of putting out the games, telling him it had received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) demand, Faraday wrote on social media. uncertain

Faraday → use → media

He then pulled down multiple sites where Call of Duty games he recreated were posted before receiving other DMCA orders. asserted

he → pull → orders

“I took the games down just in case,” Farady told The Post. asserted

Farady → take → Post

Other versions of reclaimed Call of Duty games are still available online. asserted

versions → reclaim → games

The projects raise fresh questions about how AI could make it easier for programmers to reproduce copyrighted games — and how quickly game publishers will move to stop them. uncertain

publishers → raise → them

Video game companies have a history of taking down some fan-developed games, but some exist in a legal gray zone. asserted

some → have → zone

Nintendo issued waves of DMCA takedown notices in 2020 after fans recreated Super Mario 64 and made it available for free. asserted

it → issue → 64

In 2021, Take-Two interactive issued DMCAs for recompiled version of Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City. asserted

Two → issue → III

XBox, Rockstar Games, Microsoft, and Nintendo did not respond to requests for comment. asserted

XBox → respond → comment

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