Zyrinx was a video game developer founded in 1992 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It consisted exclusively of people who had been active in the Amiga demo scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including composer

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. The first game developed by Zyrinx was ''

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'' for the Sega Mega Drive. During the development, the team relocated to

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. Later, the team developed the games ''Red Zone'' and ''Scorcher''. Zyrinx's 3D rendering technology was showcased in a Sega 32X promotion video. The team dissolved in 1998 because their publisher Scavenger went bankrupt.MobyGames – Zyrinx
/ref> In 1998, the Zyrinx team reformed under the name Reto-Moto and went on to create IO Interactive and the ''Hitman'' series of games. In April 2008 the Reto-Moto teamHitman devs go solo with Reto-Moto - Xbox 360 News at GameSpot
/ref> announced they had reformed the company and are working on multiplayer focused games.

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