Raven Software

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Raven Software

Type	Subsidiary of Activision
Founded	1990
Headquarters	Middleton, Wisconsin, United States
Key people	Brian Raffel (co-founder) Steve Raffel (co-founder)
Industry	Video games
Website	www.ravensoft.com

Raven Software is a video game developer based in Middleton, Wisconsin. The company was founded in 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel. In 1997, Raven made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them.

Raven has a history of working with id Software: After using id's engines for many of their games, they took over development of id's Quake franchise for Quake 4 and are currently working on a game in id's Wolfenstein series.^[1] They have a history of creating games only for the PC market but have expanded recently into more console games.

[edit] Games developed

Black Crypt (1992)
Shadowcaster (1993)
CyClones (1994)
Heretic (1994)
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders (1994)
HeXen (1995)
HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel (1996)
Necrodome (1996)
Mageslayer (1997)
Take No Prisoners (1997)
HeXen II (1997)
HeXen II: Portal of Praevus (1998)
Heretic II (1998)
Soldier of Fortune (2000)
Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (2000)
Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force: Virtual Voyager (2001)
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (2002)
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix (2002)
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (2003)
X-Men Legends (2004)
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (2005)
Quake 4 (2005)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006)
Singularity (TBA)
Wolfenstein (TBA)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (TBA)

[edit] References

^ "id Software and Activision, Inc. Confirm Wolfenstein(R) for the Xbox 360 Video Game and Entertainment System". PR Newswire. 2005-10-05. http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=175541.

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