United Front Games was founded in 2007. Its first official title was ModNation Racers, a user-generated contentkart racing game, which began production in 2008 and was released in May 2010. In August 2012, they released Sleeping Dogs. While it is widely believed that Sleeping Dogs was originally conceived as a title in the True Crime series, it was in fact built from the ground up as an original intellectual property. United Front Games also made LittleBigPlanet Karting with help from the series creators Media Molecule. United Front Games also worked on the Xbox One version of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. In early 2013, United Front was working on a sequel to Sleeping Dogs. The game would have picked up after the original game, once again following the previously exploits of officer Wei Shen. This time, Shen would be joined by a "conflicted, corrupt partner" named Henry Fang, as they explored China's Pearl River Delta. The player would have the ability to arrest any NPC in the world, and influence a branching storyline that swapped between both Shen and Fang. The game was said to be United Front's most ambitious game, which would have included a second screen app for mobile devices that would be able to interact with the world of the game; Playing as inspector Jane Teng, you would "manage the police force and try to control territories" from your mobile device. If you owned the game, your choices in the mobile game influenced what's happening in the world, the gangs in control, etc. If you summoned a police patrol on a mobile device, you'd see that in-game as a helicopter flying by. If you didn't own the game, the hope was to craft an enjoyable free-to-play game that pointed you towards the console game. Plans for the sequel were eventually scrapped in late 2013 before the project even went into production. In October 2014, United Front released Sleeping Dogs for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One called Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition. In September 2014, United Front Games announced Triad Wars, an online open world action-adventure game. Originally targeted for an early 2015 release on PC, Triad Wars was game set in the Sleeping DogsHong Kong universe. However, in December 2015 United Front announced the January 2016 closure of the Triad Wars open beta. In collaboration with Microsoft Studios' owned developer, 343 Industries, United Front Games developed the compilation, published in November 2014. On October 17, 2016, United Front Games announced closure even though their newest game Smash+Grab, an online multiplayer brawler, had only been out for less than a month on Steam Early Access. No other details have come from United Front Games regarding the closure of the studio.
