Kronos Digital Entertainment was an American

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and

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founded by Stan Liu in 1992. They first began to develop original properties, beginning with their visually appealing early 3D

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s, '' Criticom'', '' Dark Rift'' and '' Cardinal Syn'' (referred to as the "Trilogy of Terror" by one gaming journalist). The organization later gained greater critical and commercial success for the '' Fear Effect'' series with Eidos, although Kronos retained all rights to the franchise. Kronos was busy developing the third installment in that series, ''Fear Effect Inferno'', when publisher Eidos discontinued funding for the project following a major restructuring of their budget. The developer then shopped it around to other publishers but were unable to secure another deal to get the game finished. The company disbanded soon after, with '' Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix'' being their final released game.

Games developed

Animation

References

External links

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Interview with Stan Liu
founder of Kronos, at Gamecritics.com Defunct video game companies of the United States Video game development companies Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles Companies based in Pasadena, California Entertainment companies based in California Video game companies established in 1992 Video game companies disestablished in 2002 1992 establishments in California 2002 disestablishments in California Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles {{California-stub