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		dclowd9901 on Oct 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft acquires Havok All this means is that MS is hedging their investments. Now for every dollar a Sony game makes (that has the Havok engine), MS is going to get a cut. It may be that Sony willingly boxes out MS by going with another engine, but the games industry doesn't seem that bitter.

Narishma on Oct 4, 2015 [–]

Sony has nothing to do with this. It's the game developers who use the engine.

dclowd9901 on Oct 5, 2015 | [–]

Yes, and Sony produces games, and also entices developers to create exclusives. Those possibly use Havok and Sony may ask exclusives developers not to license it.

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