Raven Software Corporation is an American video game developer based in Wisconsin and founded in 1990. In 1997, Raven made 💲 an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them. After the acquisition, many of the studio's original 💲 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, 💲 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.[3] Raven then started making games with id Software; the company even briefly moved to the same 💲 street as id Software.[4] They used id's engines for many of their games, such as Heretic, Hexen: Beyond Heretic and 💲 Hexen II.

In 2005 and 2009, Raven developed two games from id's catalog: Quake 4 and Wolfenstein respectively.[5]