Raven Software Corporation is an American video game developer based in Wisconsin and founded in 1990.
After the acquisition, many of the studio's original developers, largely responsible for creating the Heretic and Beyond Heretic games, left to form Human Head Studios. ==History== Raven Software was founded in 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel.
They used id's engines for many of their games, such as Heretic in 1994.
In 1997, Raven made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them.
The company was independent until 1997 when it was acquired by Activision. Raven has a history of working with id Software, who were briefly located on the same street.
They took over development of id's Quake franchise for Quake 4 and the 2009 iteration of id's Wolfenstein series. The company started with three development teams.
In August 2009 following poor performance and possible over-budget of Wolfenstein, the company made a major layoff of 30-35 staff, leaving two development teams.
This was reduced to one after more layoffs in October 2010, after delays with Singularity; as many as 40 staff were released.
Following the layoffs, Raven has been focused on assisting with the Call of Duty series ever since. ==Games== In 2012, Raven began hiring employees for a game, and were announced as collaborating with Infinity Ward on Ghosts in May 2013. On April 3, 2013 following the closure of LucasArts, Raven Software released the source code for Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy on Sourceforge. As of April 2014, the company is the lead developer of the free-to-play Chinese Call of Duty title, Online.
Following the layoffs, Raven has been focused on assisting with the Call of Duty series ever since. ==Games== In 2012, Raven began hiring employees for a game, and were announced as collaborating with Infinity Ward on Ghosts in May 2013. On April 3, 2013 following the closure of LucasArts, Raven Software released the source code for Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy on Sourceforge. As of April 2014, the company is the lead developer of the free-to-play Chinese Call of Duty title, Online.
Following the layoffs, Raven has been focused on assisting with the Call of Duty series ever since. ==Games== In 2012, Raven began hiring employees for a game, and were announced as collaborating with Infinity Ward on Ghosts in May 2013. On April 3, 2013 following the closure of LucasArts, Raven Software released the source code for Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy on Sourceforge. As of April 2014, the company is the lead developer of the free-to-play Chinese Call of Duty title, Online.
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