S2 Games

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S2 Games
Company type Video game developer
Industry Video games
Founded2003
Defunct2018
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.

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History

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Jones, Al (June 24, 2015). "CEO of video game maker S2 Games says it made sense to sell top game". MLive . Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Jones, Al (May 27, 2012). "S2 Games CEO says making video games in Kalamazoo is a lot of fun ... and games (photo gallery)". mlive.com. Oshtemo, Michigan. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Smith, Chris (May 6, 2015). "Garena acquires Heroes of Newerth from S2 Games as Frostburn Studios". TweakTown. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  4. Jones, Al (June 18, 2015). "Video game maker Frostburn Studios rises as S2 Games moves on". mlive.com. Michigan, USA. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  5. LeBlanc, Dee-Ann (August 28, 2006). "Get Your Game On - S2 Games". Linux Journal . Retrieved February 6, 2016.