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PlayerUnknown Announces Studio Downsizing, End of a Certain Game Development—Is 'PUBG' Affected?

PlayerUnknown Productions has announced its downsizing efforts that led to one game being canceled. Which game is it?

Player One · Jun 4

PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey'

PlayerUnknown Productions, founded by Brendan Greene after he left Krafton in 2021, is also laying off staff.

PC Gamer · Jun 3

PUBG creator Brendan Greene halts development on "realistic Minecraft" survival game, plans to make it free and is looking into refunds

"We hope the studio can return to Go Wayback at a future point in time," say the devs

GamesRadar · Jun 3

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On the ground at PlayerUnknown's 2-day in-studio modjam where devs broke their own game

Brendan Greene is back to modding, but now it's his own game.

PC Gamer · Mar 18

PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'

Them's fighting words.

PC Gamer · Mar 12

Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it's 'a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it's like a race to the middle of sh*t'

"How can you trust stuff that says at the bottom you need to fact-check all the answers I'm giving you?"

PC Gamer · Mar 10

'We're trying to use early access in the way it was meant to be': PUBG creator Brendan Greene wants his new survival game to be built 'with the community, rather than for them'

"Early access is the oven."

PC Gamer · Dec 3, 2025

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PlayerUnknown's new survival game already has three DLCs planned, but won't include one fan-favourite idea: 'I think the weather is sufficiently worrying at this stage'

So no bears?

PC Gamer · Dec 3, 2025

PUBG creator's brutal new survival game surprise drops into Steam Early Access with a roadmap promising "expanded construction," cooking, and equipment degradation

PlayerUnknown Production's next step toward Project Artemis

GamesRadar · Nov 20, 2025

PUBG creator says he's "really heartened to see the community revolt against AI," but his studio is still using the tech in new games: "We're using it in the right way"

He's "not super worried" about backlash

GamesRadar · Nov 18, 2025

Brendan Greene's open-world survival roguelike hikes into early access later this month, and it'll actually let you save your run through its brutal wilderness

The launch version also brings extra game modes and a map editor.

PC Gamer · Nov 1, 2025

PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game flips genre staples on their heads: "Have you tried chopping down a tree?"

Hunger and thirst meters are also less deadly than you might expect

GamesRadar · May 8, 2025

'We didn't have a serious plan': The hardest part of creating Go Wayback, according to Brendan Greene, was just figuring out if it could actually work

Creating a digital world isn't as easy as you might think.

PC Gamer · May 7, 2025

PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game launches this summer for $20, and its new trailer shows all the ways it'll try and kill you

Prologue: Go Wayback! introduces its deadly world

GamesRadar · Feb 27, 2025

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Creative Bloq · Feb 23, 2025

PUBG creator's next game might be too brutal – and that's exactly the point

Prologue: Go Wayback! aims for incredible realism.

GamesRadar · Feb 22, 2025

"We try not to say 'fun'": Meet the devs behind the new survival game that puts the "human element" before letting you be a mountain-leveling demigod

Interview | "There's a lot of preconceived notions when you say 'survival game'", and Prologue: Go Wayback isn't particularly interested in any of them

GamesRadar · Feb 22, 2025

PUBG creator on how his Earth-sized open world differs from Light No Fire: "I'm not making a game. I'm building a world"

"I don't want to make games for people, I want to make games with people"

GamesRadar · Feb 21, 2025

The new survival game from the creator of PUBG is an absolutely merciless wilderness experience that's aiming to be "as hard a survival game as you can make"

Preview | Prologue: Go Wayback is a survival game, but perhaps in name only

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GamesRadar · Feb 20, 2025

PUBG creator explains why he's making a super-hard survival game instead of PUBG 2: "This is the game I've wanted to make"

"That's not what I want to do"

PC Gamer · Feb 20, 2025

'I expect a lot of people will hate it': PUBG creator Brendan Greene doesn't care if his new game is too hard for players to handle as long as it 'elicits a reaction'

We can do this the hard way or the hard way.

PC Gamer · Feb 20, 2025

PlayerUnknown's upcoming game Prologue: Go Wayback! is full of grand ambitions, but there's still a lot of room for this survival game to grow

The only way is up.

PC Gamer · Jan 14, 2025

Black holes, buildings on poles, and a 'sea urchin planet': PUBG creator's world-sized tech demo may be hiding some bizarre machine learning 'hallucinations'

"There's always going to be a little hallucination" with machine learning, says PlayerUnknown Productions' engine team behind Preface: Undiscovered World.

PC Gamer · Jan 2, 2025

PUBG creator Brendan Greene swears his infinite, mega-ambitious digital universe isn't like all the others: 'I want to build a metaverse because I don't think anyone else is'

A billion, million worlds.

Creative Bloq · Dec 9, 2024

PUBG creator's new game engine lets you create 'an Earth-scale world generated in real-time' - and its free to try on Steam

Another threat to Unreal Engine 5's dominance?

TechRadar · Dec 6, 2024

Three titles are on the way from the PUBG creator, starting with an open-world survival game

PUBG creator Brendan Greene has three games in the works.

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