Someone looked at Call of Duty and thought: What if this ran in Chrome?
Developer Luckey Faraday created unofficial browser recreations of classic Call of Duty experiences using AI coding tools.
One project, hilariously called Claude of Duty: Vibe Slops II, recreated Black Ops II style multiplayer with bots on familiar maps including Hijacked.
Another recreated the famous Kino der Toten Zombies experience.
And yes, they actually ran inside a browser.
For a moment.
Then Activision showed up.
Faraday says the publisher issued DMCA takedown notices, leading to the hosted games and related posts being removed.
Activision has not publicly detailed the notices. But there is one pretty obvious complication here.
These were not completely original games inspired by Call of Duty.
The projects reportedly used maps, models and animations taken from the original PC releases.
Which is the part where “fun fan project” starts becoming a copyright lawyer’s favourite email.
Still, the story is interesting for another reason.
AI coding tools are making it much faster for individual developers to recreate surprisingly complex software.
That means we are probably going to see a lot more people experimenting with unofficial versions of games that would previously have required entire teams.
Whether publishers let those projects survive is another question.
This one lasted long enough to prove that browser Call of Duty could work.
Then Activision basically hit uninstall.
Very on brand.
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