You can now play Halo: Combat Evolved in a web browser, and it even has multiplayer

In an act that is both technically impressive and presumably legally dubious, a developer has got a build of the original Halo: Combat Evolved working in a web browser. And no, I didn't play the game instead of writing this article in a timely fashion; why do you ask?

Developer Mitchell Hynes recently took to X to share their browser-based rendition of Halo, and it works surprisingly well. Simply click on the site, wait for the browser to download anything it needs, and start playing. It even has full mouse and keyboard support.

It's all built off the decompilation project from Bnunu, who have been reverse-engineering the game for some time. It, combined with a fork from team Cybersecurity, supports 128-player multiplayer and works on Windows, Linux, and Android.

The site saw so much traffic from X that it very briefly went down, as it was automatically flagged for "suspected phishing", but has since come back online. …