It's a nice gesture to keep one of the most influential games of all time up-and-running after all this time, even if it wasn't the best version out there. GameRanger has confirmed that the game, the demo, and the mod based Custom Edition will all be running through its service. Altogether, it has over 700 other games under its banner.

Australia-based service GameRanger has stepped in to take up the responsibility of keeping the multiplayer up and running, and Halo will join the likes of other tossed aside games like Need for Speed: Most Wanted and GRID that GameRanger has 'saved' over the years. Halo: Combat Evolved has been available on PCs for eleven years now, but it is still going strong enough to be considered worth saving. Two more aging, yet still massively popular, multiplayer games are confirmed to be surviving the incoming Gamespy shutdown on May 31.