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novelty: "notable"
verification_level: "source-linked"
signal_type: "announcement"
source_platform: "kotaku.com"
topics: ["claude"]
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# Claude is reportedly turning old console hits into free browser games : Kotaku played AI-made browser versions of Halo, GTA: Vice City and The Simpsons: Hit and Run, and says Claude Opus 5.5 is beh...

## Retrieval answer

Kotaku reports that browser versions of several older console games have appeared after what it describes as AI-assisted decompilation.

Kotaku reports that browser versions of several older console games have appeared after what it describes as AI-assisted decompilation. The article says its author played browser ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: Combat Evolved, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3, and The Simpsons: Hit and Run, and that some ran very well. It attributes the broader wave to Claude Opus 5.5 and argues that work once requiring months of painstaking reconstruction can now be completed much faster. The report also describes one Halo: Combat Evolved browser version with functioning online servers. These are the publication’s observations and claims, not an independently documented technical audit; the article does not establish the provenance or authorization status of each port. Its significance is the reported change in the cost and speed of reconstructing legacy software, which could make enforcement against individual copies less durable if new versions are easy to produce.

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