Microsoft Has Purchased Havok, A Company That Makes Middleware Physics Software

9 responses to “Microsoft Has Purchased Havok, A Company That Makes Middleware Physics Software”

1. 

   manu

   October 3, 2015 at 10:17 am

   This is a big deal. Havok is the only major physics middleware that openly support third party hardware.

2. 

   Chuckademus

   October 3, 2015 at 10:34 am

   Anything that helps MSFT sweeten the deal for FROM is good in my books.

3. 

   mrtaco

   October 3, 2015 at 11:01 am

   Cool story, Jason.

4. 

   Raze35

   October 3, 2015 at 5:56 pm

   Did not see that coming, Havok is used in everythinnnng far out

5. 

   jacka

   October 3, 2015 at 8:18 pm

   First time I’ve heard of Havok since the days when having “physics” in your game was a selling point

6. 

   whitepointer

   October 4, 2015 at 7:09 pm

   I wonder if Microsoft will allow Havok to continue to be used on competing platforms (while MS get licensing fees) or whether they won’t. There are other options out there…PhysX and Vortex probably being the most notable of them.

7. 

   riddick

   October 5, 2015 at 6:49 am

   Wish more companies would use Havok rather then making their own BROKEN physics system (I’m looking at you Gaijin). Lets hope they don’t make it more expensive for developers to get Havok, if anything it should be a open-source free-to-use until you actually make a commercial product, for everyone.

   Not sure how they do it ATM, but there are many devs who don’t want to use Havok for some reason. Some complain the Havok engine simple doesn’t work with procedural worlds…

8. 

   nemalive

   October 5, 2015 at 11:03 am

   I guess it will support DX12 then 🙂

9. 

   gaminmuncherz

   October 13, 2015 at 8:53 am

   Just wondering, does Assassin’s Creed series uses Havok for clothes physics?