PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has crossed 10 million daily active users.

PUBG creator Brendan Greene spells out the year ahead in battle royale

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is changing the world of gaming with nearly 100 million daily players. But creator Brendan Greene and PUBG Corp. development head Taeseok Jang are trying to stay focused on improving their battle royale game across the PC, consoles, and mobile devices.

I sat down with Greene and Jang at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show last week in Los Angeles. In the interview, Greene said the 300 developers at PUBG Corp. and its owner Bluehole in South Korea are focusing on making the game more stable, building up the systems to enable easier game modding, and adding new maps to keep the players coming back.

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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.