Havok, the Emmy award winning technology company, has made its first technology product acquisition, adding the Kore Virtual Machine (VM) product and technology to its portfolio.
Kore VM was developed by the Irish company New Game Technologies. and is currently the smallest and fastest virtual machine for consoles.
Renamed Havok Script, Kore VM is licensed by Sega, Bungie, Lionhead, Masthead Studios, United Front Games, NetDevil and a number of additional undisclosed studios. Kore is also currently powering the title Supreme Commander 2.
Havok will be providing all future support, licensing and services for Havok Script and has a dedicated engineering team in place for on-going development. Havok Script will be licensed as a fully standalone product which can be used completely independent of Havok’s other products. Over time Havok will announce details on how Havok Script will interact and integrate with Havok’s full suite of products.
Commenting on the new acquisition, David Coghlan, managing director of Havok, said: “This is a very exciting time for Havok as we complete our first product technology acquisition and extend our offering to include Havok Script.”
Hugh Reynolds, CEO of new game technologies, added: “We’d been looking at taking the company in a new R&D direction for some time. I guess we thrive on new product development, so we were delighted when the opportunity came up to place the Kore VM technology with Havok. Without a doubt, Havok is the company that has the best track record in the games industry for supporting customers and delivering optimized cross-platform technology.”
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