Microsoft Acquires Havoc

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Raviel said:

I must say that this aquisition is a bit weird :P
Getting Havok to implement their physics into the cloud, but couldn't they just use the Crackdown engine for that? Or did that already use the Havok engine?

There could be more to it than that though. Now Micorsoft could potentially offer Havok for free to developers that exclusively (timed or lifetime) makes games for Xbox/Windows. Maybe not that big of a deal for bigger studios but maybe smaller ones?

Rumor....is that Havock didn't naturally suport what Microsoft wanted to do with the cloud, and were goint to charge so much it made sense to just buy them outright. Microsoft has big plans for the cloud, them pulling it off would benefit gamers everywhere!

Either way this could be great for Microsoft beyond gaming.