Trauma Studios

{{short description|American computer game developer}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Trauma Studios

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| type = Subsidiary of Digital Illusions CE

| fate =

| 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

| homepage =

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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.{{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.

On September 1, 2004, Digital Illusions CE bought Trauma Studios which became DICE New York. 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.{{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.

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.{{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}}