Trauma Studios was an American
video game developer company founded in 2003. They were best known for having created ''
Desert Combat'', a
mod for ''
Battlefield 1942''.
[Archived]
on 2022-01-05.
On September 1, 2004,
Digital Illusions CE bought Trauma Studios which became DICE New York.
Since then, they had been collaborating on creating the
first-person shooter
First-person shooter (FPS) is a sub-genre of shooter video games centered on gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action through the eyes of the protagonist and controlling the p ...
''
Battlefield 2'', follow-up to ''Battlefield 1942''. On June 7, 2005, Digital Illusions announced that they had shut down Trauma Studios.
[Archived]
on 2022-01-05.
In January, 2006, the team behind Trauma Studios was hired by publisher
THQ
THQ Inc. was an American video game company based in Agoura Hills, California. It was founded in April 1990 by Jack Friedman, originally in Calabasas, and became a public company the following year through a reverse merger takeover. Initi ...
to create a new internal development studio known as
Kaos Studios. Their first game, ''
Frontlines: Fuel of War'', was released on February 25, 2008.
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Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game companies established in 2003
Video game development companies