Kronos Digital Entertainment
| Industry | Video game industry |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1992 |
| Defunct | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Pasadena, California, U.S. |
Key people | Stan Liu |
| Products | Fear Effect series |
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: Inferno (2002) for PlayStation 2 (unreleased)
References
- ↑ July 8, 1998 2:09PM PDT (1998-06-30). "Cardinal Syn Review". GameSpot.com. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.gamecritics.com/review/feareffect2/main.php
- ↑ "Interview With Kronos". Mastergamer.com. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
- ↑ Steve Pollack (2003-08-03). "Fear Effect Inferno". Steve Pollack. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
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