{"id":339232,"date":"2025-10-21T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2166074"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:20:51","slug":"brendan-playerunknown-greene-talks-massive-open-world-survival-project-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/brendan-playerunknown-greene-talks-massive-open-world-survival-project-prologue\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan &#8220;PlayerUnknown&#8221; Greene talks massive-open-world survival project Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/brendan-playerunknown-greene-talks-massive-open-world-survival-project-prologue.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2019, PUBG creative director Brendan &#8220;PlayerUnknown&#8221; Greene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2019-12-13-pubg-teases-mysterious-prologue-game\">shared a teaser video<\/a> for his mysterious next project Prologue, and now, following news of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-01-playerunknown-quits-pubg-company-to-form-new-studio\">departure from PUBG parent company Krafton<\/a>, the developer has revealed more.<\/p>\n<p>Prologue started life at Krafton&#8217;s Amsterdam-based PUBG Special Projects, and will continue to be developed at Greene&#8217;s new studio PlayerUnknown Productions, with Krafton investing in the new company with a minority stake.<\/p>\n<p>Setting the scene for Prologue in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PLAYERUNKNOWN\/status\/1433682802931904518?s=20\">new video shared on Twitter<\/a>, Greene explained, &#8220;I&#8217;ve held this deep fascination with sandbox-style open-world games and the freedom they give their players but I always just wished they were a bit bigger, so that&#8217;s our mission as a studio &#8211; we want to create realistic sandbox worlds on a scale that&#8217;s seldom attempted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-03-brendan-playerunknown-greene-talks-massive-open-world-survival-project-prologue\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-03-brendan-playerunknown-greene-talks-massive-open-world-survival-project-prologue\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2019, PUBG creative director Brendan &#8220;PlayerUnknown&#8221; Greene shared a teaser video for his mysterious next project Prologue, and now, following news of his departure from PUBG parent company Krafton, the developer has revealed more. 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