Offset Software was a

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company based in

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. It was founded by Sam McGrath, Travis Stringer, Trevor Stringer and Rod Green; except for Green, they had worked for

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developing '' Savage: The Battle for Newerth'', which won the grand prize at the

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in 2004. The company had one game under development, a

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with the working title "Project Offset". (Some official preview videos have shown third-person views for close-quarters combat.) The game featured a detailed

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world. It was showcased on ''

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'' in 2005. In February 2008,

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acquired Offset Software, having purchased the Havok engine in 2007. Intel canceled the game in mid-2010, citing "recent changes in our product roadmap" (possibly meaning the failure of Larrabee as a consumer product). The founders of Offset Software have moved to a new game development studio named Fractiv LLC. The Offset Engine was licensed by

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in 2006 to create their

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game

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. Intel shutting down the Offset team did not mean Red 5 could no longer use the engine. The game used a heavily modified engine originally based on the Offset Engine.http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/07/07/offset-engine-still-being-used-by-red-5-studios/

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