Editing Trauma Studios

{{short description|American computer game developer}}
{{Infobox company 
| name     = Trauma Studios
| logo     = 
| caption  = 
| type     = [[Subsidiary]] of [[Digital Illusions CE]]
| fate             = 
| successor        = [[Kaos Studios]]
| foundation       = 2003
| defunct          = June 7, 2005
| location_country = United States
| industry         = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
| products         = ''[[Desert Combat]]''<br/>''[[Battlefield 2]]''
| parent           = [[Digital Illusions CE]]
| homepage         =
}}

'''Trauma Studios''' was an American [[video game developer]] company founded in 2003. They were best known for having created ''[[Desert Combat]]'', a [[mod (computer gaming)|mod]] for ''[[Battlefield 1942]]''.<ref name="biz">{{cite web |title=Digital Illusions sign popular Battlefield 1942 mod makers |url=https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/digital-illusions-sign-popular-battlefield-1942-mod-makers |website=[[GamesIndustry.biz]] |language=en}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20220105154445/https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/digital-illusions-sign-popular-battlefield-1942-mod-makers Archived] on 2022-01-05.</ref>

On September 1, 2004, [[Digital Illusions CE]] bought Trauma Studios which became DICE New York.<ref name="biz"/> 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.<ref name="GameSpot on Trauma closure">{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/articles/dice-nyc-kia/1100-6127099/|title=DICE NYC KIA|last=Thorsen|first=Tor|publisher=[[GameSpot]]|date=2005-06-07|accessdate=2014-07-27}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20220105155046/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dice-nyc-kia/1100-6127099/ Archived] on 2022-01-05.</ref>

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, ''[[Frontlines: Fuel of War]]'', was released on February 25, 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kaos Descends: How Homefront 's Developer Met its End |url=https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/173660/kaos_descends_how_homefronts_.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708202439/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/173660/kaos_descends_how_homefronts_.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 8, 2012 |website=[[gamasutra.com]] |date=6 July 2012 |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122034103/http://www.traumastudios.com/ |date=22 January 2008 |title=Trauma Studios}}

{{Digital Illusions}}

[[Category:Defunct video game companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Video game companies established in 2003]]
[[Category:Video game development companies]]