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Mark Rein is the vice president and co-founder of Epic Games, one of the world’s leading game developers and game technology providers. Epic is responsible for the award-winning Unreal Engine technology and the blockbuster Gears of War and Infinity Blade series of games.

Gaming enthusiast media outlet Kotaku recently named Mark fourteenth on their list of “The 40 Most Powerful People In Video Games.” Mark was also honored in Develop magazine’s 2008 “Game Changers,” a list of 25 gaming industry luminaries who are “reshaping the games development business as we know it.” In 2005, CNN Money listed Mark as one of “the five most powerful people in the game industry today,” and GameDaily ranked Mark third in their top five list of “Game Industry Persons of the Year.”