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Re:Microsoft acquires Havok by dclowd9901 on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:05PM (#10328823)
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.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Havok by Narishma on Sunday October 04, 2015 @07:01PM (#10329158)
Sony has nothing to do with this. It's the game developers who use the engine.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Havok by dclowd9901 on Sunday October 04, 2015 @11:04PM (#10329765)
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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