Keadaen t1_j1zvid1 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:17 PM

Reply to comment by Svoboda1 in Activision's Boston studio workers announce unionization by No-Drawing-6975

Raven software (the Wisconsin one) won their bid back in September I believe it was.

Paradox68 t1_j220ypo wrote on December 29, 2022 at 2:07 AM

Raven Software? You mean the ones who made Fable? Didn’t know that was owned by Activision /:

mclairy t1_j224gfb wrote on December 29, 2022 at 2:33 AM

Fable is owned by Microsoft but was made by Lionhead, which is now shuttered. Raven Software is a Call of Duty studio (that prior to that did a lot of licensed games)

LuckyDuck4 t1_j226gb6 wrote on December 29, 2022 at 2:48 AM

I remember Raven for Heretic and Hexen, some of the first games that licensed the Doom engine. Love their old stuff, but it’s a shame they got shoved into the COD meat grinder.

Edit: put “licensed” in the wrong place. Heretic and Hexen were not licensed titles.

danthemagnum t1_j22jqod wrote on December 29, 2022 at 4:35 AM

They also did the X-Men Legends games, and the first Marvel: Ultimate Alliance game.

nemocluecrj t1_j23knsj wrote on December 29, 2022 at 12:00 PM

Heretic and Hexen are both amazing titles. I've always felt like way too many people slept on those games back in the 90s. I think that most gamers I knew didn't get around to them til Hexen was ported to the N64, but all of the console ports were hot garbage. I played the hell out of both of them on my PC when they were first released.