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