11 Facts About Raven Software

1.

Raven Software Corporation is an American video game developer based in Wisconsin and founded in 1990.

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2.

In 1997, Raven Software made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was acquired by them.

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3.

Raven Software was founded in 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel.

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4.

Originally a three-person company, they were discovered by John Romero, co-founder of id Software, who collaborated with Raven to make games using their game engine beginning with ShadowCaster.

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5.

In 2005 and 2009, Raven Software developed two games from id's catalog: Quake 4 and Wolfenstein respectively.

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6.

In May 2022, a group of quality assurance testers from Raven Software successfully organized a union known as the Game Workers Alliance, with the vote being 19 for and 3 against.

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7.

In 2012, Raven Software began hiring employees for a game, and were announced as collaborating with Infinity Ward on Call of Duty: Ghosts in May 2013.

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8.

Raven Software remade Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, titled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered.

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9.

In 2020, Raven Software collaborated with Infinity Ward on the game Call of Duty: Warzone.

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10.

Raven Software is considered the face of maintaining, updating and debugging the game as they regularly provide status updates and patch notes on Twitter and their official website.

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11.

Raven Software developed Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with Treyarch, which released on November 13, 2020.

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