Half-Life 2 in a Browser

And Quake 3: https://thelongestyard.link/q3a-demo/

And Unreal Tournament: https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut

There's also https://noclip.website/ which, while not playable, has hundreds of levels from dozens of older games that you can explore freely. Including Half-Life 2, with more accurate rendering than this web port (which seems to be missing many shaders including character eyes).

That's also the kind of Website, beside the impressive technical result, that reminds me nothing can be blocked.

It's not about bypassing VPN or deep pack inspection, rather it's about how once anything, including a very complex video game (like here) to an entire OS with a host machine (like QEMU on WASM, or a random InternetArchive link about emulation) is "just" a Web page that can be hosted... on anything (including a 10 bucks Rasperry Pi Zero which can also be an AP, a phone obviously, heck even a e-cig!) then it doesn't matter what is "blocked" as it can be brought to anyone with no installation.

Interesting, I am not able to play HL2 on Steam because macOS no longer has 32-bit support and Valve never compiled if for 64-bit but here we are, it’s playable on the same OS in the browser.

BTW IIRC there was some method to convert the 32-bit game binaries to make them run on recent macs. I remember doing it.

Here is a link to the blog post since I didn’t see it mentioned

https://www.slqnt.dev/blog/hl2-in-web

What about gaming on a mac?

This is cool, and also probably illegal, since you don't own any of this and don't have the right to redistribute it.

I just wish Valve could add official macos-arm64 builds of the various hl2 games on Steam :-/

Whew. Crashed before I sunk my day there.