Kim Chang-han, CEO of Bluehole Studio, and Brendan Greene, creator of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

PlayerUnknown Brendan Greene moves on to a new battleground with special assignment

Brendan Greene, the creator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), announced today the formation of a new team within PUBG Corp. in Amsterdam, dedicated to work on an all new project.

While Greene will remain a consulting creative director on PUBG, his day-to-day focus will be heading up this new division: PUBG Special Projects. Taeseok Jang, the head of the development division of PUBG Corp., will take over responsibility for PUBG’s ongoing development, Greene said in a blog post.

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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.