{"id":1392930,"date":"2025-11-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/did-you-know-brendan-playerunknown-greene-the-creator-of-pubg-wants-to-remake-the-internet"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:00:00","slug":"did-you-know-brendan-playerunknown-greene-the-creator-of-pubg-wants-to-remake-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/did-you-know-brendan-playerunknown-greene-the-creator-of-pubg-wants-to-remake-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know Brendan &#8220;PlayerUnknown&#8221; Greene, the creator of PUBG, wants to remake the internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/did-you-know-brendan-playerunknown-greene-the-creator-of-pubg-wants-to-remake-the-internet.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say that Irish video game maker Brendan Greene, known by the alias &#8220;PlayerUnknown&#8221;, is an ideas man. He&#8217;s credited with creating and popularising the battle royale genre, initially experimenting with it in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/arma-3\">Arma 3<\/a> mod, then building it into zombie game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/h1z1\">H1Z1<\/a>, before making the extraordinarily successful multiplayer shooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/playerunknowns-battlegrounds\">PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds<\/a> &#8211; or PUBG as we know it now. Big ideas are irresistible to Brendan Greene, and few ideas come bigger than the one he currently has, to remake the internet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/did-you-know-brendan-playerunknown-greene-the-creator-of-pubg-wants-to-remake-the-internet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/did-you-know-brendan-playerunknown-greene-the-creator-of-pubg-wants-to-remake-the-internet\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s safe to say that Irish video game maker Brendan Greene, known by the alias &#8220;PlayerUnknown&#8221;, is an ideas man. He&#8217;s credited with creating and popularising the battle royale genre, initially experimenting with it in an Arma 3 mod, then building it into zombie game H1Z1, before making the extraordinarily successful multiplayer shooter PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds &#8211; or PUBG as we know it now. Big ideas are irresistible to Brendan Greene, and few ideas come bigger than the one he currently has, to remake the internet. 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