Prologue is a test run for a much bigger world from PlayerUnknown Productions.
Prologue is a test run for a much bigger world from PlayerUnknown Productions.
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Brendan Greene’s PlayerUnknown Productions unveils massive game projects

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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PlayerUnknown Productions is surfacing after years of development with a three-game plan to enable what founder Brendan Greene refers to as a next generation of survival games.

Greene is the inventor of the battle royale genre in video games, inspired by the Japanese film Battle Royale (2000). In modern parlance, battle royale is like the Squid Game (Netflix TV show) where matches start with 100 or so people in an ever-shrinking battle space until only one person is left as the winner.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.