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