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Type
  
Video game developer

Founder
  
Marc DeForest

Website
  
s2games.com

Number of employees
  
22

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Industry
  
Computer and video game industry

Products
  
Savage: The Battle for Newerth Savage 2: A Tortured Soul Heroes of Newerth Strife

Headquarters
  
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Motto
  
Dedicated employees serving dedicated gamers. Continuous development. Never-ending improvement.

Video games
  
Heroes of Newerth, Strife, Savage: The Battle for Newerth, Savage 2: A Tortured Soul

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S2 Games is a video game development company which was founded by Marc "Maliken" DeForest, Jesse Hayes, and Sam McGrath, based in Rohnert Park, California. They also have 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 are independently publishing and distributing it. Their latest installment in the Newerth 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. Garena subsequently moved Heroes of Newerth to Frostburn Studios, a Kalamazoo, Michigan based subsidiary of Garena.

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Titles

  • Savage: The Battle for Newerth (2003) (Windows, Macintosh, Linux)
  • Savage 2: A Tortured Soul (2008) (Windows, Macintosh, Linux)
  • Heroes of Newerth (2010) (Windows, Macintosh, Linux)
  • Strife (2015) (Windows, Macintosh, Linux)
  • Savage Resurrection (2016) (Windows)
  • Key events

  • In 2003, S2 Games released Savage: The Battle for Newerth, their first commercial game.
  • In 2004, three former S2 Games employees left the company to form Offset Software.
  • In 2006, S2 Games re-released Savage: The Battle for Newerth, as freeware.
  • In 2008, S2 Games released Savage 2: A Tortured Soul.
  • In 2009, S2 Games re-released Savage 2: A Tortured Soul as freeware.
  • In 2010, S2 Games released Heroes of Newerth.
  • In 2011, S2 Games re-released Heroes of Newerth as freeware/free-to-play
  • In 2012, S2 Games made all heroes in Heroes of Newerth completely free for online play
  • In 2012, over 10,000,000 Heroes of Newerth user accounts had been registered.
  • In 2013, S2 Games announced Strife an upcoming "second generation MOBA"
  • In 2015, S2 Games released Heroes of Newerth from its label into the hands of Frostburn Studios
  • References

    S2 Games Wikipedia