Activision has reportedly issued a DMCA takedown against unofficial Call of Duty browser ports created by developer Luckey Faraday. Faraday announced on X that the publisher targeted him for porting CoD games to the browser, resulting in the removal of all related posts and taking the games offline. He questioned if he was the first 'vibe coder' to receive such a notice from a major gaming company.
The notice itself remains private, and Activision has not commented. The projects affected include Claude of Duty: Vibe Slops II, a Black Ops 2 multiplayer recreation, and Kino der Toten, a browser version of Black Ops Zombies. Both utilized Three.js and were developed with AI coding agents.
Vibe Slops II featured free-for-all matches against six bots on Hijacked and Nuketown 2025, while the Zombies project offered a fully playable solo experience of Kino der Toten. Project pages indicated that maps, models, and animations were exported from original PC games, likely complicating Faraday's situation despite both being labeled non-commercial fan projects. At the time of writing, the Kino der Toten repository was still accessible on GitHub, suggesting the takedown targeted the hosted games and promotional posts.
This action follows closely after Take-Two sent a cease-and-desist to the modder behind the GTA 5 Switch port, and shortly after a free browser port of Halo: Combat Evolved was released.
Source: TechPowerUp News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing