A number of IO Interactive co-founders have left the Eidos-owned Hitman, Freedom Fighter and Kane & Lynch developer to form a new studio under the name of Reto-Moto.

No projects have been announced, though the company noted it is "committed to redefining the online multi-player space."

Among the company's staff are Hitman director Jacob Andersen, previous IO VP David Guldbrandsen, former lead character designer Jesper Vorsholt Jorgensen, and old sound engineering lead Martin Pollas. All were co-founders of IO Interactive.

The four are joined by Neil Donnell, who served as an executive producer at Eidos Interactive.

Originally founded in 1997, Reto-Moto's first act was to create IO Interactive in a joint-venture with Nordisk Film. Publisher Eidos acquired IO in 2004.

Also gold today is Freedom Fighters, the new third person squad action game from Hitman developer IO Interactive. The game will ship September 23 for PC, Xbox, PS2 and GameCube.

GameSpy has a new preview of Freedom Fighters, offering impressions of the PC build of IO Interactive's third person shooter. The game will be released this month, you can grab the demo from FileShack.

Electronic Arts has just released the Freedom Fighters demo, allowing you to try out IO Interactive's new squad based third person action game. The demo is a 75mb download and contains a single level.

Level: Post Office
Mission: Capture the Post Office, which was overrun by the Soviets and is now being used as an operations base. Defeat the Soviets, and raise the American flag to successfully complete the mission. Your sub-mission--blow up a Soviet Fuel Depot.
Fighters: Recruit and lead up to three Freedom Fighters in a battle to capture the Post Office. The final game allows you to recruit up to 12 fighters.
Arm yourself with over 7 different weapons such as the AK-47, sniper rifle, and the Molotov Cocktail.

You can find out more about this game at the official website, located here.

There is a brief Freedom Fighters Q&A on GameGossip this morning. IO Interactive's lead designer Mads Prahm is asked to describe the game, explain the mission completion style, the orders you can give to your squad, weapons you have available, and the difference between outdoor and indoor combat.

GameSpot has a new Freedom Fighters preview, offering brief hands-on impressions of this new IO Interactive shooter. 15 new screenshots are included.

The chaps at EuroGamer have taken a look at Freedom Fighters, the new third person action game from IO Interactive. The preview offers hands-on impressions of gameplay, graphics, team AI and more.

Action Trip has posted a Freedom Fighters Q&A, asking Mads Prahm of IO Interactive about the team working on this third person action game, squad controlling and AI, use of the Hitman 2 tech and multiplayer plans.

Electronic Arts has released a new Freedom Fighters movie, showing off various ingame sequences from this third person action game in development at IO Interactive. Thanks Blues News.

Computer & Video Games has posted a Q&A with an unnamed person from IO Interactive, asking him/her/it about the squad based action game Freedom Fighters. EA will publish the game, it is currently scheduled for a September release. The official site recently opened.

UGO's preview of Freedom Fighters is up, taking a look at the new third person action game from the makers of Hitman.

HomeLAN Fed continues with the Camp EA impressions, today JCal offers his impressions of Freedom Fighters. This action game from IO Interactive (Hitman) will be released this fall.

GameSpot has a new article on Freedom Fighters, the IO Interactive game that was previously known as Freedom: Soldiers of Liberty. The preview offers a bit of info on who you are and what you do, the title's gameplay and the possible lack of multiplayer on PC even though the console versions have it.

PC.IGN is the latest site to post a Freedom: Soldiers of Liberty preview, offering their own overview and impressions of this third person action game from IO Interactive. This console/PC game will ship later this year.

There's a new Freedom: Soldiers of Liberty preview on GameSpot, offering a look at this third person action game in development at IO Interactive. Eight new screenshots are included.

There is a preview of Freedom: Soldiers of Liberty on GameSpy, taking a look at this Grand Theft Auto-like game in development at IO Interactive (Hitman). Though the preview isn't hands-on, there's some info on the game's charisma system, the recruiting of freedom fighters, the missions, the graphics and AI.