Microsoft bought the Havok game engine.

[Skel]

Seem Microsoft bought the Havok engine that games like Bioshock uses. Wonder how this will effect games going forward. At least it looks like MS is moving forward on it's claims that it's supporting gaming.

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[Dahak]

Well its not a full game engine in the way that Unreal or Unity is, but the physics engine that a lot of other engines use.

I think that it makes a bit more sense that MS owns it vs intel, as MS has some game developer studios, and could see the possibility of it being tweaked for better usage on xbox primarily and pcs too

 

[Rakehellion]

Bioshock uses the Unreal engine.

Havok is one of the oldest physics engines and it's used in Halo, Dark Souls, Fallout 3, and hundreds of other titles.

 

[Denithor]

I wonder if now that Havok will be agnostic (no preference between Intel/AMD) they could rig something up to run on the integrated graphics processors on all CPUs these days. Or does it still make more sense to process physics on the discrete cards, leaving the iGPU turned off in most cases?

 

[Elixer]

Wonder if it will go the same route as the Unreal engine?

 

[mmntech]

I wonder if now that Havok will be agnostic (no preference between Intel/AMD) they could rig something up to run on the integrated graphics processors on all CPUs these days. Or does it still make more sense to process physics on the discrete cards, leaving the iGPU turned off in most cases?

As long as it doesn't become Windows / Xbox exclusive.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

Microsoft should just stay out of gaming, everything they touch goes to shit, the Xbone is a complete and total joke and shot itself in the **** on the way out of the gate, their shitty DRM and games store all got closed down leaving loads of games unplayable, we desperately need them to keep their grubby mitts off anything related to gaming with the exception of DX support in windows.

 

[Skel]

Microsoft should just stay out of gaming, everything they touch goes to shit, the Xbone is a complete and total joke and shot itself in the **** on the way out of the gate, their shitty DRM and games store all got closed down leaving loads of games unplayable, we desperately need them to keep their grubby mitts off anything related to gaming with the exception of DX support in windows.

I wish I could fail as well as the Xbox did..

 

[TechBoyJK]

Wonder if it will go the same route as the Unreal engine?

apples/oranges

 

[werepossum]

I wish I could fail as well as the Xbox did..

lol I could use some of them fail-bucks right about now.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

I wish I could fail as well as the Xbox did..

What a more expensive console which performs worse than the competition with worse DRM and about 1/5th of the sales during the initial surge, and a device with an awful UI and focused on being a fancy TV remote when everyone wanted a gaming machine.

I'm guessing that Microsoft haven't made any profit from the Xbone yet and wont for years, how is that failing well?

They got completely trashed and embarrased at their E3 launch, Sony nailed it and continue to do so ever since with better titles at higher frame rates and higher FPS.

This is a company that is completely out of touch with what gamers want, and that's a dangerous thing when they're buying up very popular middleware and get to start toying with how it works, they're a blight on gaming to put it mildly.

 

[JEDIYoda]

What a more expensive console which performs worse than the competition with worse DRM and about 1/5th of the sales during the initial surge, and a device with an awful UI and focused on being a fancy TV remote when everyone wanted a gaming machine.

I'm guessing that Microsoft haven't made any profit from the Xbone yet and wont for years, how is that failing well?<-- your guess is fact?? Why don`t you back up your diatribe with printed facts??


They got completely trashed and embarrased at their E3 launch, Sony nailed it and continue to do so ever since with better titles at higher frame rates and higher FPS.<-- more unsubstantiated opinion??

This is a company that is completely out of touch with what gamers want, and that's a dangerous thing when they're buying up very popular middleware and get to start toying with how it works, they're a blight on gaming to put it mildly.

You don`t know what your talking about...

 

[chimaxi83]

Lol I'd expect a wannabe PC master race member (that puts down console buyers because they're "poor") to know that

better titles at higher frame rates and higher FPS.

are the same damn thing. Then again, you're not as smart as you wish you were.

You don`t know what your talking about...

All you're going to get is another moronic post. Promise.

 

[norseamd]

Well I think I am far more ok with Microsoft as owner of Havok than Intel who did absolute crap with advancing physics in video games for the past 10 to 15 years or so.

 

[SunnyD]

You'll see "DirectPhysics" soon enough.

 

[norseamd]

This is going to be absolutely amazing.

No more suffering the piss of Nvidia blocking out AMD users from good physics.

And now if Microsoft integrating physics into DX we might get the promises of advanced physics in games when Ageia was building discrete graphics cards for desktops.