Raven Software Corporation is an American video game developer based in Wisconsin and founded in 1990. In 1997, Raven made 馃専 an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them. After the acquisition, many of the studio's original 馃専 developers, largely responsible for creating the Heretic and Hexen: Beyond Heretic games, left to form Human Head Studios.
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Raven Software was founded in 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel.[2] Originally a three-person company, 馃専 they were discovered by John Romero, co-founder of id Software, who collaborated with Raven to make games using their game 馃専 engine beginning with ShadowCaster.[3] Raven then started making games with id Software; the company even briefly moved to the same 馃専 street as id Software.[4] They used id's engines for many of their games, such as Heretic, Hexen: Beyond Heretic and 馃専 Hexen II.
In 2005 and 2009, Raven developed two games from id's catalog: Quake 4 and Wolfenstein respectively.[5]
