Building giant and ambitious games | Brendan Greene interview

Elvis Presley once said, “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” Brendan Greene, the creator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), has a lot of ambition. His battle royale game, inspired by the Japanese film Battle Royale (2000), has sold more than 80 million copies.

And one of Greene’s ambitions is doing something important like that again in video games. And so he just announced that his PlayerUnknown Productions is resurfacing after years of development with a three-game plan to bring on the next generation of survival games. And it’s ambitious.

I talked to Greene, who is known as PlayerUnknown, about it in an exclusive interview. It’s down at the bottom of this introduction and I hope you like it. At the end, I asked him about ambition.

Greene got the idea from the movie that he could stage a battle where 100 people would compete with ...