The company Microsoft has just announced that it has acquired the rights to the physics engine and software developer Havok family. Used by the technology for several years, is used in countless games, from production of mobile and ending with the big-budget blockbusters pecetowych and console.
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The company has since 2007 belonged to Intel
Microsoft announced just that acquired physics engine and software from Havok family, belonging to the Irish company of the same name. The previous owner was Intel, which bought it in 2007 for $ 110 million. The Redmond giant has not specified how much, however, have to pay for the entire company, which since the first acquisition evolved significantly catalog offered software and technology, and has partnered with numerous partners. The representatives of the American giant ensure that will not change policy or direction of Havok and do not restrict the use developed by solutions only to the platforms supported by Microsoft. One of the new aspects which have to deal with engineers Havok will however use Servers in the cloud physics computation in games such as Crackdown 3.
The company Havok was founded in 1998. Developed by the first commercial version of its development tools Havok saw the light of day in 2000. They allowed to advanced for its time simulation of physics objects and interactions between them in real time. Along with improving the software and the introduction of new features Havok has become increasingly popular among game developers. One of the first production, which in spectacular fashion and widely used the services of his solutions was released in 2004 Half-Life 2 . Since then, the technology Physical Irish people have become an integral part of nearly 200 titles biggest producers and publishers such as Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. In time, they began to use them as smaller developers, including those who specialize in mobile applications. What’s more, Havok technologies are also popular every day in the film industry in the development of special effects in the largest cinema blockbusterach.
A small part of the titles that use Havok’s technology
- The official website for the company Havok
- The official website of Microsoft
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