Deep Silver will Ride to Hell with Havok

Havok today announced the signing of a two-year licensing deal with Deep Silver. Under terms of the agreement, the game developer will gain access to the Havok Physics, Havok Animation and Havok Behavior solutions. The first title from Deep Silver to use Havok’s technology will be Ride to Hell, which focuses on ’60s bike culture.

"Based on our long history of close collaboration with Havok, Deep Silver has managed to pull off something really fantastic by incorporating Havok into Ride to Hell," says Hannes Seifert, Executive Producer and Managing Director at Deep Silver’s development studio. "Havok’s Physics, Animation and Behavior software provides us with tremendous lifelike movement of our bikers. Players can choose bikes that can be built from the ground up and are totally customizable. Without Havok Behavior this simply wouldn’t be possible to such a high quality. We are achieving such groundbreaking results together once again."

"Having previous customers return to us and sign these types of deals says a lot about us and our technology," says David O’Meara, Managing Director at Havok. "Havok Physics, Animation and Behavior support multiple genres of games across all platforms giving Deep Silver unlimited opportunities for the global gaming audience."

Ride to Hell is set to release in 2009 on "next-gen consoles" and PC.