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S2 Games
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. They also had a development location in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 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 are independently publishing and distributing 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. Garena subsequently moved ''Heroes of Newerth'' to Frostburn Studios, a Kalamazoo, Michigan based subsidiary of Garena. Titles *'' Savage: The Battle for Newerth'' (2003) (Windows, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
