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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] |
Website | s2games.com |
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 (areal-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 are 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 NewerthtoGarena to focus on Strife, their second-generation MOBA.[1][3]
Garena subsequently moved Heroes of NewerthtoFrostburn Studios, a Kalamazoo, Michigan based subsidiary of Garena.[3][4]
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