Η Microsoft acquired Havok, a game development company previously bought by Intel for a respectable sum.
Intel bought Dublin-based Havok, known for its physics engine, in September of 2007 for 110 million dollars.
Iwok has been working with leading publishers and game developers, such as Microsoft Games Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo and others, for 15 for years.
Avok's physics technology is designed to provide real-time detection conflicts, in three dimensions.
Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Havoc:
“We welcome Havok to the Microsoft family. We will continue to work with developers to create better games with Havok's development tools. We believe Havok is a fantastic addition to existing Microsoft tools and platform components for developers, including DirectX 12, Visual Studio and Microsoft Azure. ”
Even though Microsoft's leadership is adjusting the company to cope with a much more demanding market, always focusing on the basic software and services that Microsoft has made known, the company does not seem to abandon gaming.
Microsoft seems to see gaming as a key way to maintain its presence on iOS, Android and other platforms not of the company.
