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Saffire Corporation

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Former type
  
Private

Fate
  
Insolvency

Founder
  
Les Pardew

Industry
  
Video game industry

Defunct
  
2007 (2007)

Founded
  
1994

Headquarters
  
South Jordan, Utah, U.S.

Key people
  
Hal Rushton (President) Mark Kendall (CEO) Michael Ricks (CFO)

Video games
  
StarCraft: Brood War, Van Helsing, Bio FREAKS, Xena: Warrior Princess, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Saffire Corporation was a contract video game developer located in South Jordan, Utah. It was known for both, porting games and creating original titles. The company as founded as Cygnus Multimedia by Les Pardew in his basement, employing six people in total.

In 1994, it changed its name to Saffire Corporation and was later headed up by Sculptured Software co-founder, Hal Rushton. They released their last title, Thunderbirds, in 2004 and went out of business in 2007.

References

Saffire Corporation Wikipedia