Kronos Digital Entertainment

Kronos Digital Entertainment was a U.S.–based video game developer founded by Stan Liu in 1992. They first garnered attention for their contract work for Sierra On-Line, most notably the groundbreaking intro sequence they created for King's Quest VI. They eventually 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.

Resume

• King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992) for PC
• Phantasmagoria (1995) for PC
• Criticom (1995) for PlayStation and Sega Saturn
• X-Perts (1995) for Sega Genesis
• Dark Rift (1997) for Nintendo 64
• Meat Puppet (1997) for PC
• Cardinal Syn (1998) for PlayStation
• Fear Effect (2000) for PlayStation
• Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (2001) for PlayStation
• Fear Effect 3: Inferno (2002) for PlayStation 2 (Unreleased)

References

External links

• Interview with Stan Liu, founder of Kronos, at Gamecritics.com
• Kronos Digital Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database