Microsoft bought Havok

Mangled Poly

Figured this was interesting enough to share here.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/10/02/havok-to-join-microsoft/

Guess I need to update my spot in the Job Census Thread

spacefrog

Intersting - i guess Microsoft and Unity will not go so cosy with each other as it did happen in the past ...

Deathstick

Probably, since Havok is actually a company and it sounds like they bought the company.

Hopefully they still remain pretty open to whatever company needs their support, IE Sony v Microsoft/ I'm usually slightly wary of company buyouts after what Autodesk did to Softimage.

[Deleted User]

Aaaand... what drives you to this conclusion?

spacefrog wrote: »

Intersting - i guess Microsoft and Unity will not go so cosy with each other as it did happen in the past ...

xChris

Is there a way to get a free/student version of Havok to learn how to set up destructions etc?

Equanim

They wont generate as much revenue by making Havoc proprietary, all of the major competitors address as many platforms as possible, and Microsoft doesn't already have a major competitor AFAIK.

I think this was mostly about pure business rather than the client facing product.

radiancef0rge

meh havok was owned by intel before so like nbd..