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Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY Brings Havok to Android Developers

Japanese Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced via a recent post on their product blog that the company has partnered with Havok to bring the latter's product suite to Android developers. Moreover, the company announced that the tools will be greatly enhanced to fit the new, revolutionary Xperia P...

3 March 2011
12:12 GMT

Third Person Shooter Vanquish Will Use Havok Tech

Platinum Games, as the developer, and Havok have announced that the upcoming third person shooter Vanquish will be using the Hacok Physics and Animation middleware to deliver its mix of fast paced action and stylish visuals.The Havok technology is set to be used throughout Vanquish and will be used to deliver “...

7 October 2010
03:23 GMT

AMD: PhysX Will Die, Havok Is the Future

According to the latest news on the web, Godfrey Cheng, Director of Technical Marketing in AMD's Graphics Product Group, is reported to have said that PhysX would most likely disappear if they remained a closed and proprietary standard. “There is no plan for closed and proprietary standards like PhysX,&rdq...

12 December 2008
02:03 GMT

Developer Talks About Differences Between Resident Evil 4 and 5

Resident Evil 4 was a great game that pushed the boundaries of all the consoles it was launched on to new heights and set benchmarks for other titles that would appear on the GameCube or the PlayStation 2. It was met with very big critical acclaim having won numerous awards and praised for the creativity and the inno...

24 October 2008
03:50 GMT

Intel and Havok Announce Physics Challenge for Amateur Developers

Physics is bound to become a major part of upcoming graphics cards, as well as future game releases, which is why major players in the industry are seriously considering the development and adoption of physics-ready hardware. This also includes Intel and Havok, two companies that have joined forces in a recently anno...

1 October 2008
06:48 GMT

One Hour With: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

15:01. The LucasArts logo is very cool, with the little yellow guy throwing the light saber right at you and then going for a bit of Force lightning.15:03. Ahhh, loading times, how I hate them! Give me the Force!15:10. Force training is interesting, but the throwing mechanic seems a bit complicated. I suspect most th...

29 August 2008
08:56 GMT

AMD Is Working on Havok, Final Thoughts on R700

It looks like AMD is working hard on the introduction of Havok on GPU. The company wants to make it run faster than Physics on a GPU, at least that is what AMD's Physics department seems to have told news site Fudzilla. While Ageia's PhysX was able to leverage the physics in original Ghost Recon Advanced Wa...

8 August 2008
05:07 GMT

Nvidia Helps Porting PhysX on Radeon

Nvidia seems to have decided it's time to make a new tactical move in the already announced war on the graphics cards market. What's coming this time is Santa Clara's direct help for third party modders which started the operation of bringing PhysX processing to AMD graphics cards. Nvidia surely enjoys...

10 July 2008
03:03 GMT

Havok Will Not Support GPU Acceleration

NVIDIA is trying to convince us that its PhysX technology is the best way for handling in-game physics, although its technology isn't much supported by current games. In fact, Havok, NVIDIA's competitor in the physics department, is doing quite well, especially since it has support for almost 300 games and ...

3 July 2008
05:41 GMT

Carnival Games: Mini-Golf Has Havok Physics

2K Games, the property of Take Two Entertainment, are announcing that they are licensing the Havok physics engine, which will be used in the freshly announced Diablo III from Blizzard, in a series of releases for the Nintendo Wii. 2K is best known for developing BioShock, one of the most surprising games of 2007, whi...

30 June 2008
02:40 GMT

AMD and Intel Working on Further Development of Havok Physics Technology

If you haven't already found out, Advanced Micro Devices has entered a collaboration agreement with Intel's subsidiary, Havok, which is expected to bring forward a new physics engine for AMD's graphics cards. As part of this collaboration, the companies have recently announced that they will try to opt...

16 June 2008
06:02 GMT

Intel Brings Havok Amongst Video Developers

Intel will distribute a PC version of its Havok Completephysics and animation software as a free download to developers who are building non-commercial applications and other products. The Havok Complete will be ready for download starting in May this year.Havok Complete is Havok's core platform and is comprised...

21 February 2008
11:32 GMT

Ageia Marries Nvidia, Leaves AMD Alone: What Will Happen to the Graphics Market?

Graphics expert Nvidia has just announced that it struck a deal with physics processing company Ageia, in order to integrate the physics processing engine in Nvidia's future generations of graphics cards. Two weeks ago, I have informed you that a deal was in progress, although both Nvidia and Ageia dismissed the...

5 February 2008
03:05 GMT

Following the Laws of PhysX, AMD Considers Buying Ageia

The chess game played by Intel and AMD has extended not only over the x86 processor market, but also in the video and gaming sectors. Back in September, Intel finished the Havok takeover, fisting the entire gaming industry under the belt. AMD considered that it would be time to send the heavy artillery back on the ba...

22 November 2007
06:46 GMT

GPU Physics, Dead and Buried Until DirectX 11

Computer gaming is more than classy graphics and excellent storyline. The digital television impacted over the gamers' brain, who now demand detail depth and realistic physics. Of course, these features get reflected in complicated mathematic calculations, necessary for particle rendering accuracy. If you experi...

22 November 2007
06:10 GMT

Intel Extends: Acquiring Havok

Intel announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the software developing company Havok, which is specialized in software applications and tools that are related to gaming and digital content creation while at the same time being one of the most important providers of software physics.In most mode...

17 September 2007
06:52 GMT


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