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[ZombieSupaStar]

This bit of news is a bit old (9/1/04) but the mod team behind Desert Combat was officially bought by digital illusion

9-1-2004

DIGITAL ILLUSIONS BUYS TRAUMA STUDIOS

Digital Illusions buys New York based game developer Trauma Studios Inc.
Initially Trauma will work with the development of a concept for a new PC game.

- Through Desert Combat Trauma showed they are remarkably good at developing products the consumer wants. They understand our technology and are experienced and skillful game developers. This was the major factor to our acquisition, said Patrick Söderlund, CEO at Digital Illusions.

- With Digital Illusions award winning team and Trauma Studios’ talent, I am confident we will be very successful together. We really look forward to being part of the Digital Illusions family, said Frank DeLise, CEO at Trauma Studios Inc.

Digital Illusions buys all assets of Trauma and employ all its employees. Digital Illusions thereby buys the trademarks Desert Combat and Trauma Studios.

Trauma will work with the development of games built on Digital Illusions’ technology produced in Sweden. The focus for Trauma – as for Digital Illusions’ Canadian office - will thereby be on concept and game developing, rather than on developing technology. Initially Trauma will work with the development of a concept for a new PC game based on the Battlefield 2 engine. The companies have been working together since February 2004, and Trauma will continue to develop certain parts of Battlefield 2.

Trauma has nine employees today. According to plan the number of employees will increase gradually to be around 20 persons.

Trauma Studios is specialized in FPS* games. They are best known for their Desert Combat mod of Digital Illusions' hit game, Battlefield1942, which was elected “Best Mod of the Year” in 2002 and 2003 by the gaming site Gamespy.com. Trauma also has developed gaming tools for Electronic Arts and the American Military.

*FPS is an abbreviation of First Person Shooter.

For more information please contact:
Patrick Söderlund, CEO, Digital Illusions, +46-8-658 78 01 or

Jenny Huldschiner, Communications Manager, Digital Illusions, +46-8-658 78 03
E-mail: press@dice.se or ir@dice.se

Congrats Frank, I just hope that Battlefield 2 kicks all the more ass now that you have access to the source code and everything (BF 1 had SHIT official support for along time).

 

[B'z-chan]

DC is great since day one i've been supporting these guys. Heck i even donated money to them. I love DC a lot and i'm so glad that they finally have a chance to get big and make alittle money.

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

I just wanna see what the can come up with unchained as it were (from being a mod to being an actual built from the ground up game).

 

[B'z-chan]

yeah agreed i just hope input and creative control is all in there hands and not DICE (well dice doesnt really do that, we should blame EA for that) but stuff like that can happen especially when you've got a boss.