Turtle Rock Studios, formerly Valve South, is an American video game developer founded in March 2002. The company’s most notable games are: the first Left 4 Dead, which was published by Valve; and Evolve, which was originally set to be published by THQ but was later published by 2K Games. The founder of the company had worked for Westwood Pacific, and assisted in the development of the Counter-Strike series. The company expanded from six employees to more than seventy staff members from 2011 to 2014 and opened a subsidiary company called Turtle Rock Garage in 2011, which specialized in developing casual and experimental games for platforms such as iPhone, Facebook and Xbox Live.