<![CDATA[Kotaku: Havok]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Havok]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/havok http://kotaku.com/tag/havok <![CDATA[GameStop Wreaks Havok on the X-Men, Gives Spider-Man an Identity Crisis]]> With two Marvel superhero video games coming from Activision this fall, GameStop ransacks comic book continuity for fresh outfits to provide preorder customers of X-Men: Destiny and Spider-Man: Edge of Time. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5820648&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Happy Tenth Birthday, Havok!]]> Often unsung heroes of the gaming world, physics simulation, content development, and digital media service provider Havok celebrates 10 years of their logo showing up all over the damn place. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5106345&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Havok Goes Free In May]]> Trying to create your own PC game of you and your friends shooting up your high school but lacking the physics and animation technology to bring the whole project together? Well if you can wait a few months, you can use the same tools you've seen flashed countless times on your TV and computer monitor over the past several years - Havok. Havok is releasing their industry-leading Havok Complete toolset completely free in May. Havok Complete combines the Havok physics engine with Havok Animation, and is already used in over 200 triple-A titles on the market today.
"This is fantastic news for commercial PC game developers as well as the independent game development community, who will really benefit from this move," said Mark DeLoura, creator of the Game Programming Gems series.
Indeed fantastic news, as having powerful tools freely available can really help foster creativity across the industry, while also expanding the market for Havok's add-on products, like the recently announced Cloth and Destruction apps. An extremely long press release follows. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=359091&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Havok Gets Cracking, Fluttering]]>
The Havok engine just got a much-needed kick in the fluttering cloth pants with the unveiling of Havok Cloth and Havok Destruction at GDC, two products that will provide developers unprecedented control over cloth and destruction in their games. Havok Cloth, as seen in the video above, allows for scalable clothing that will stretch and flow as a character moves, while Havok Destruction is all about breaking stuff - dynamic fracturing, shattering, and deformation of objects. While just a nifty video clip to the layman, this is exactly the sort of thing that gives game developers - male and female alike - intense, uncomfortable erections. Hit the jump for the full press release. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=358266&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GDC08's Floorplan Hits]]> This year's Game Developers Conference page just updated with a slew of new information including the floorplans for the new show. Is it just me or is it starting to look more and more like E3? This could be in part driven by Microsoft's continued commitment to the show. This year their meeting room and suite space looks to be more than twice the size of Nintendo's and Sony's combined. Epic's is also insanely large, though they have a lot of sales to do for their engine, so I can see them going big at GDC. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=339991&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel Buys Havok, Lets Slip Dogs Of War]]> Over the weekend Intel, the company that spawned countless witty stickers with "(Insert Noun) Inside", announced the purchase of Irish company Havok, creators of the Havok middleware physics engine, which has been used in over 150 games across just about every popular platform today, from BioShock to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. According to a release on Intel's site, the purchase "will enable developers in the digital animation and game communities to take advantage of Intel's innovation and technology leadership in the creation of digital media", where previously they were doing the same thing, only with Havok instead of Intel. Same difference. From what I can determine from the release, Havok will continue business as usual, though I bet they'll have much snazzier stickers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=300397&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Havok Licensed to Blizzard]]>
In a press release that went out yesterday, only to be instantly smothered in a sea of Wii, Havok announced that Blizzard Entertainment has licensed the physics engine for god knows what. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=200837&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NVidia and Havok Demonstrate Physics GPU]]> We all know that video games are never going to be respected amongst the tea-and-crumpets set as a high art form until we have games that can realistically emulate a disembodied Double-D breast rolling through a Katamari Damacy type world, or the bone-cracking tumbling that would result if you kicked an old woman down a set of polygonal stairs. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=161579&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Havok's New Physics Engine Preview]]> We just got word that Havok's co-founder spoke at an Irish university and talked about their next generation physics engine. Kotaku reader Conor was there and took copious notes. More »
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