Trauma Studios was an American

video game developer A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with em ...

company founded in 2003. They were best known for having created '' Desert Combat'', a

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for ''

Battlefield 1942 ''Battlefield 1942'' is a 2002 first-person shooter game developed by Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The game can be played in single-player mode against the video game AI or in multip ...

''.Archived
on 2022-01-05. On September 1, 2004,

Digital Illusions CE EA Digital Illusions CE AB (trade name: DICE) is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm. The company was founded in 1992 and has been a subsidiary of Electronic Arts since 2006. Its releases include the ''Battlefield'', ''Mirror's Edg ...

bought Trauma Studios which became DICE New York. Since then, they had been collaborating on creating the

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Battlefield 2 ''Battlefield 2'' is a 2005 first-person shooter game developed by Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows. It was released in June 2005 as the third game in the ''Battlefield'' franchise. Players fight ...

'', 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

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to create a new internal development studio known as

Kaos Studios Kaos Studios was an American video game developer based in New York City. Founded in 2006, the company developed the first-person shooters ''Frontlines: Fuel of War'' (2008) and ''Homefront (video game), Homefront'' (2011). It was a subsidiary o ...

. Their first game, '' Frontlines: Fuel of War'', was released on February 25, 2008.

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* {{Digital Illusions Defunct video game companies of the United States Video game companies established in 2003 Video game development companies