Trauma Studios | |
Type: | Subsidiary of Digital Illusions CE |
Successor: | Kaos Studios |
Foundation: | 2003 |
Defunct: | June 7, 2005 |
Location Country: | United States |
Industry: | Video games |
Products: | Desert Combat Battlefield 2 |
Parent: | Digital Illusions CE |
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.[1]
On September 1, 2004, Digital Illusions CE bought Trauma Studios which became DICE New York.[1] Since then, they had been collaborating on creating the first-person shooter Battlefield 2, follow-up to Battlefield 1942. On June 7, 2005, Digital Illusions announced that they had shut down Trauma Studios.[2]
In January, 2006, the team behind Trauma Studios was hired by publisher THQ to create a new internal development studio known as Kaos Studios. Their first game, , was released on February 25, 2008.[3]