Mark Pacini is an American

video game designer Video game design is the process of designing the content and rules of video games in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production stage. Some common video game design subdiscipline ...

. He is a graduate of the

Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university, private research university in the town of Henrietta, New York, Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degree ...

, and beginning in September 2008, works for

Armature Studio Armature Studio, LLC is an American video game development studio in Austin, Texas. The studio, founded by former Retro Studios directors Mark Pacini and Todd Keller in September 2008, developed '' Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate'' (2013) and ...

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/ref> He previously worked for

Retro Studios Retro Studios, Inc. is an American video game developer and subsidiary of Nintendo based in Austin, Texas. The studio is best known for its work on the ''Metroid Prime'' and ''Donkey Kong Country'' series, and has contributed to several other N ...

as game director of the critically acclaimed ''

Metroid Prime ''Metroid Prime'' is an action-adventure video game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. ''Metroid Prime'' is the fifth main installment in the ''Metroid'' franchise and the first game in the series to use 3D co ...

'' series.

Works

* ''

NHL Breakaway 99 ''NHL Breakaway 99'' is an ice hockey game for the Nintendo 64 and is a sequel to NHL Breakaway 98. It was released in 1998, The cover art features Steve Yzerman of the Detroit Red Wings. Features The game features the same features as ''Bre ...

'' (1998) – project manager * '' Turok: Rage Wars'' (1999) – project manager * ''

'' (2002) – director * '' Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'' (2004) – director * '' Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'' (2007) – director * '' Metroid Prime: Trilogy'' (2009) – special thanks * ''

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is a compilation of remastered ports of ''Metal Gear'' video games released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011 and PlayStation Vita in 2012. The compilation contains '' Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty'' and '' Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake ...

'' (2012) * ''

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale ''PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale'' is a 2012 Crossovers in video games, crossover fighting game, fighting video game developed by SuperBot Entertainment, in conjunction with Bluepoint Games, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It f ...

'' (2012) – special thanks * '' Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate'' (2013) – director * ''

ReCore ''ReCore'' is an action-adventure and platform video game developed by Comcept and Armature Studio, with assistance from Asobo Studio, and published by Microsoft Studios for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One. The game was released worldwide ...

'' (2016) – director * ''

Resident Evil 4 VR ''Resident Evil 4'' is a 2005 survival horror third-person shooter game developed by Capcom Production Studio 4 and published by Capcom. It was originally released for the GameCube on January 11, 2005. Players control U.S. government special ...

'' (2021) – director

Past

* Retro Studios (game director), January 2000 – April 2008 * Armature Studio (lead designer), September 2008 – present

References

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