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Company type | Video game developer |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | 2003 |
Defunct | 2018 |
Headquarters | Rohnert Park, California, Kalamazoo, Michigan |
Products | Savage: The Battle for Newerth Savage 2: A Tortured Soul Heroes of Newerth Strife Savage Resurrection Brawl of Ages |
Number of employees | 22 (2015) [1] |
S2 Games was a video game development company which was founded by Marc "Maliken" DeForest, Jesse Hayes, and Sam McGrath, based in Rohnert Park, California. [2] They also had a development location in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Their first project (a real-time strategy, third-person shooter and role-playing game hybrid), Savage: The Battle for Newerth , was released in the Summer of 2003. They released its sequel, Savage 2: A Tortured Soul , on January 16, 2008, and independently published and distributed it. Their third installment in the Savage series, Heroes of Newerth , based heavily around Defense of the Ancients , was released on May 12, 2010.
In 2015, S2 Games sold the rights to Heroes of Newerth to Garena to focus on Strife , their second-generation MOBA. [1] [3]
Garena subsequently moved Heroes of Newerth to Frostburn Studios, a Kalamazoo, Michigan based subsidiary of Garena. [3] [4]