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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 »

12:40 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Mike Fahey
6,841 views, 61 comments

Latest by navstar: So does this mean Havok for Mac?? more »

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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 »

2:00 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Mike Fahey
10,505 views, 90 comments

Latest by NeoStarr: So the cape doesn't go through anyone- big deal. It's still defies gravity. more »

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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.

Two more maps on the jump.

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10:00 AM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Brian Crecente
7,089 views, 71 comments

Latest by blkpaladin: GDC is primarily a show for programers, and also serves as a job fair. So I wouldn't hold my breath for anythig beyond a few potentail titles being released this year. more »

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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 »

7:00 AM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,632 views, 28 comments

Latest by RealmRPGer: Not that it probably needs saying, but this is obviously Intel trying to get on top of the PPU/GPPU/CPPU wars. In other words, Intel wants you to run physics on their quad cores, not a physics card and not on more »

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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 »

3:40 PM on Fri Sep 15 2006
By egauger
176 views, 10 comments

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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 »

7:40 AM on Mon Mar 20 2006
By brownlee
236 views, 1 comment

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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 »

7:18 PM on Thu Oct 27 2005
By Brian Ashcraft
74 views, 4 comments

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