Neowin News Feed for: Havok

Intel sells game physics company Havok to Microsoft

Chris Schroeder — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:16:01 +0000

Microsoft loves acquisitions, so it's no surprise that the company has purchased Havok, the leader in 3D gaming physics. Read more...

MOGA game controller coming to Windows Phone 8

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:38:43 +0000

Microsoft has announced a number of game developer tools that will be coming for Windows Phone 8 game creators, including a way to add support for the MOGA game controller. Read more...

Intel's Havok division buys Vision Game Engine

John Callaham — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:08:17 +0000

Intel is getting in the business of buying game engines again as its Havok division has acquired the Vision Game Engine and its owner Trinigy. Read more...

AMD to pair CPUs, GPUs with Intel's physics tech

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:28:39 +0000

AMD is partnering with Intel to improve the way its graphics chips can handle physics and other scientific calculations. Well, sort of...AMD's actually working with Intel subsidiary Havok, which the chip giant acquired last year.... Read more...

Havok Physics Engine is here

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:02:36 +0000

Yesterday Havok announced that the famous physics engine is finally free(with some limitations obviously). The No-Charge Havok PC download is a binary-only bundle that includes all of the standard features and functionality of both the... Read more...

Havok Causes Havoc in GPU Physics

Steven Parker — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:39:31 +0000

AMD says GPU physics is dead until DirectX 11 PC gamers have been looking for more than just pretty graphics when it comes to their game titles over the last few years. Not only... Read more...

Physics Acceleration Heats Up: Intel to Purchase Havok

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:38:44 +0000

Intel has signed a definitive agreement to purchase software developer Havok Incorporated, a company that provides various software development tools to digital animation and game developers as well as one of the largest providers for... Read more...

Blizzard gets Havok

Todd Tanner — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:16:23 +0000

Havok, the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the game and film industries, announces today that Blizzard Entertainment® has licensed Havok 4.0, the market-leading game-play physics and animation solution. ... Read more...

Nvidia and Havok show first GPU-powered software solution

Todd Tanner — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:00:45 +0000

The result of an ongoing engineering collaboration between Havok and NVIDIA, this new software product from Havok -- called Havok FX(TM) -- enables the simulation of dramatically-detailed physical phenomena in PC games, when powered by... Read more...