Reto-Moto ApS is a Danish

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based in

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. Founded in 1997, its staff formed

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as a

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in September 1998. Following a decade of inactivity, some founders reformed Reto-Moto in April 2008, and the company developed ''

Heroes & Generals ''Heroes & Generals'' is a free-to-play first-person shooter and real-time strategy video game set in World War II developed and published by Reto-Moto, now bTLM Gamessince February 3, 2022. Reto-Moto was founded by some of the founders of IO In ...

'', which was released in September 2016.

History

Prior to founding Reto-Moto, all founding members had been part of various

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–based demo groups, but decided to move back to

in 1997, where they founded Reto-Moto later that year. In September 1998, Reto-Moto, at the time consisting of Jesper Vorsholt Jørgensen, Rasmus Guldberg-Kjær, Martin Munk Pollas, Karsten Lemann Hvidberg, Jacob Andersen, Janos Flösser and David Guldbrandsen, and Danish film studio

Nordisk Film Nordisk Film A/S (lit. "Nordic Film") is a Danish entertainment company established in 1906 in Copenhagen by filmmaker Ole Olsen. It is the fourth-oldest film studio in the world behind the Gaumont Film Company, Pathé, and Titanus ...

launched

, another developer, as a

. Nordisk Film held a 40.3% stake in the venture. Due to IO Interactive's rapid success through '' Hitman: Codename 47'' in 2000, Reto-Moto's operations were put on ice. Eventually, all stakes in IO Interactive were sold to

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in March 2004. On 11 April 2008, four of IO Interactive's founders—Vorsholt Jørgensen, Pollas, Andersen, and Guldbrandsen—announced that they had, together with former Eidos Interactive executive producer Neil Donnell, reformed Reto-Moto as an active developer. Guldbrandsen and Donnell became the chief technology officer and

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, respectively. Six further IO Interactive employees left the company to join Reto-Moto in December that year. By April 2012, Reto-Moto had 25 employees, most of them transplants from IO Interactive. Reto-Moto's first game, ''

'', was announced on 7 October 2011. A temporary publishing agreement for the game was reached with

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in November 2012. ''Heroes & Generals'' was officially released on 23 September 2016 and has since reached 10 million registered users as of January 2017. On 16 August 2017, Reto-Moto hired Jean-Marc Broyer as new chief executive officer. Nordisk Film announced on 6 December 2017 that they had acquired a minority stake in Reto-Moto in exchange for a investment. On 4 February 2022, TLM Partners announced that it had acquired ''Heroes & Generals'' and related businesses from Reto-Moto. A bankruptcy notice for the company was published on 7 March 2022.

Games developed

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.reto.dk/ Video game companies based in Copenhagen Danish companies established in 1997 Video game companies established in 1997 Video game companies of Denmark Video game development companies Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality