Friday, May 22, 2009 - David O’Meara, Managing Director of Emmy award winning Irish technology company Havok, was last night named ‘IT Industry Person of the Year’ at the ninth annual ICT Excellence Awards. The ICT Excellence Awards is Ireland’s longest-running and most prestigious event recognising outstanding achievers in the information and communications technology industry.

 Development Studio Licenses Havok Destruction For Upcoming Video Games

San Francisco, CA (April 28, 2009) – Havok™, the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the games and movie industries, today announced that Saber Interactive, a leading game development studio headquartered in Millburn, NJ with a production office in St. Petersburg, Russia, has licensed its physics-based Havok Destruction software for use in several video games.

Advances Game Character Production Schedules Ten-Fold

(San Francisco, CA), March 31, 2009 – Havok™, the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the games and movie industries, announced today that Ubisoft’s Six Flags® Fun Park™ was created using Havok Behavior™ – the unique productivity software that combines an intuitive game development composition tool for artists with a run-time SDK for programmers.

Upcoming Game Titles From Acclaimed Development Studio Built On Havok’s Award-Winning, Cross-Platform Technology

Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA (March 26, 2009) – Havok™, the premier provider of interactive software and services for digital media creators in the games and movie industries, today announced that CD Projekt RED has licensed Havok Complete™ for use in several of its upcoming game titles for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system and PC for Windows platforms. 

Recent Havok Release Gaining Significant Developer Momentum;

Showcased at Havok Exposuite #154, West Hall March 25-27

Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA (March 25, 2009) – Havok™, the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the games and movie industries, today revealed that recent widespread adoption of Havok Cloth by developers has made it the fastest-selling Havok product to date.

Unveils Havok AI™ Pathfinding SDK and Powerful Expansions for Havok 6.5;

Releases Updates to Intel-Sponsored Download of Havok Technologies

Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA – (March 24, 2009) -- Havok™, the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the games and movie industries, today unveiled its expanded version 6.5 lineup of software and tools at the 2009 Game Developer’s Conference. Havok is showcasing its recently announced Havok AI, in addition to revealing major enhancements and new features to the Intel-sponsored public download of its award-winning modular suite of cross-platform run-time technology and artists tools.

New Havok Technologies Tackle Highly Performant Pathfinding in Games

Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA – (March 23, 2009) --Havok™, the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the games and movie industries, today unveils the newest addition to the company’s growing product portfolio - Havok AI.  On display in Havok’s booth (Exposuite #154) at the Game Developers Conference, Havok AI provides developers with unique solutions to perform pathfinding and advanced character interaction in highly dynamic game environments.

Titles Built on Havok Prominently Represented

San Francisco, CA (February 25, 2009) – BAFTA, the prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts Committee, recently announced its nominations for 2008’s best video games naming 10 different games featuring Havok-powered tools and software for a total of 27 nominations throughout 12 of 14 categories - six times greater than any other physics engine.  Havok™ is the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the games and movie industries.

Havok™, the Emmy award winning Irish technology company which provides interactive software and services to the global games and movie industries, has appointed Mike Walsh as Worldwide Head of Sales.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 -- Havok™, the Emmy award winning Irish company which provides interactive software and services to digital creators in the global games and movie industries, has won a prestigious Game Developer Front Line Award for their industry leading middleware product Havok Physics.

Click here to read excerpts from the interview with Jeff Yates, Vice President Product Management, discussing Havok's growth from its core area, Physics, to its current product lineup. 

Jeremy Gordon and Micahel Boccieri of Sega Studios wrote about the many virtues of Havok Physics in the January 2009 issue of Game Developer announcing Havok as the 2008 Front Line Award winner in the Middleware category.

Gordon and Boccieri wrote, "What really sets Havok apart are the layers of developer support that the company has integrated into all aspects of its product and services.  Havok understands what it means to be a middleware company, and what it means for middleware to bring real value to a game’s development cycle…It’s continued expansion of Havok Physics’ integrated product set, with new modules like Havok Behavior and Havok Destruction seamlessly integrating with the core Physics SDK; modules created based on cross-discipline developer feedback, and expanded and refined with an eye towards versatility and ease-of-use."

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January 5, 2009 - The editors of Game Developer magazine announced Havok Physics as one of the best tools used to make video games.

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As Havok celebrates its ten-year anniversary, David O’Meara discusses the company’s past and future.

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