Shaba Games LLC

Description
Shaba Games was a game development studio founded in September 1997 in San Francisco, California (USA). The studio was acquired by Activision in April 2002 and became a wholly-owned subsidiary. On 9 October 2009, parent company Activision confirmed that the studio has been closed.
The studio was especially known for a number of entries in the Tony Hawk skateboarding series. In later years at Activision, Shaba often acted as an assistant studio, porting or providing additional development to multiplatform titles.
Studio head Christopher Scholtz went on to found Free Range Games in the same year.