Reto-Moto


Reto-Moto ApS is a Danish video game developer based in Copenhagen. Founded in 1997, its staff formed IO Interactive as a joint venture in September 1998. Following a decade of inactivity, some founders reformed Reto-Moto in April 2008, and the company developed Heroes & Generals, which was released in September 2016.

History

Prior to founding Reto-Moto, all founding members had been part of various United States–based demo groups, but decided to move back to Copenhagen 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 launched IO Interactive, another developer, as a joint venture. Nordisk Film held a 40.3% stake in the venture. Due to IO Interactive's rapid success through in 2000, Reto-Moto's operations were put on ice. Eventually, all stakes in IO Interactive were sold to Eidos Interactive in March 2004.
On 11 April 2008, four of IO Interactive's founders, namely 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 chief technology officer and chief executive officer, respectively. Six further former IO Interactive employees followed to Reto-Moto in December that year. By April 2012, the company had 25 employees, of which the majority were transplants from IO Interactive.
Reto-Moto's first game, Heroes & Generals, was announced on 7 October 2011. A temporary publishing agreement for the game was reached with Square Enix 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.

Games developed