Kronos Digital Entertainment
| Industry | Computer and video games Interactive entertainment |
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| Founded | 1992 |
| Defunct | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Pasadena, California, United States |
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Key people
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Stan Liu |
Kronos Digital Entertainment was a American video game developer founded by Stan Liu in 1992. They first began to develop original properties, beginning with their visually appealing early 3D fighting games,[1] Criticom, Dark Rift and Cardinal Syn (referred to as the "Trilogy of Terror" by one gaming journalist).[2] The organization later gained greater critical and commercial success for the Fear Effect series with Eidos,[2] although Kronos retains all rights to the franchise.[3] Kronos was busy developing the third installment in that series, Fear Effect Inferno, when publisher Eidos discontinued funding for the project following a major restructuring of their budget. The developer then shopped it around to other publishers but were unable to secure another deal to get the game finished.[4] The company disbanded soon after, with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix being their final released game.
Games developed
| Year | Game | Platform(s) |
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| 1995 | Criticom | PlayStation, Sega Saturn |
| 1997 | Meat Puppet | Microsoft Windows |
| Dark Rift | Nintendo 64, Microsoft Windows | |
| 1998 | Cardinal Syn | PlayStation |
| 2000 | Fear Effect | |
| 2001 | Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix |
References
External links
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived March 28, 2002)
- Interview with Stan Liu, founder of Kronos, at Gamecritics.com
- Kronos Digital Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database
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