Trauma Studios

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]

Trauma Studios

Company type	Subsidiary of Digital Illusions CE
Industry	Video games
Founded	2003
Defunct	June 7, 2005
Successor	Kaos Studios
Headquarters	United States
Products	Desert Combat Battlefield 2
Parent	Digital Illusions CE

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, Frontlines: Fuel of War, was released on February 25, 2008.^[3]