Microsoft Purchase Havok Technology From Intel
Havok has been sold to Microsoft by its previously owners Intel.
The company’s corporate article says the following about the acquisition: “Microsoft’s acquisition of Havok continues our tradition of empowering developers by providing them with the tools to unleash their creativity to the world. We will continue to innovate for the benefit of development partners. Part of this innovation will include building the most complete cloud service, which we’ve just started to show through games like Crackdown 3.”
Microsoft later confirmed to IGN that Havok technology would not become exclusive to Xbox titles and would still be available to license on many platforms. The full update is as follows: “We will continue to license Havok’s technology to the broad AAA games industry. This also means that we will continue to license Havok’s technology to run across various game consoles including Sony and Nintendo.”
They also said they were not discussing financial matters at this time, so how much this deal cost is currently unknown.
