Raven Software (or Raven Entertainment Software, Inc.) is an American video game developer. 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. After the acquisition, much of the studio's original talent responsible for creating the Heretic and Hexen: Beyond Heretic games left to form Human Head Studios.
Raven has a history of working with id Software: After using id's engines for many of their games (from Heretic in 1994), they took over development of id's Quake franchise for Quake 4 and the new iteration of id's Wolfenstein series.[1] A major layoff at the company occurred in August 2009 after the poor performance of Wolfenstein,[2] followed by another in October 2010 after delays with Singularity.[3] On January 27, 2012 Raven Software announced that they were hiring motion capture actors for an unknown title. Many have assumed that this is Singularity 2, however Activision said that they refused to help fund anymore of Ravens projects, and since then they have not released any more information on the project.
On April 3, 2013 following the closure of Lucas Arts, Raven Software released the source codes for Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy on Kotaku.
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| Heretic and Hexen |
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| Soldier of Fortune |
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World War II story arc
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Modern Warfare story arc
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Black Ops story arc
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Ghosts story arc
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| Misc |
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