Brendan Greene, the creator of the online battle royale shooter PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) — who left the game’s development team in 2019 — has unveiled his plans to create a new generation of a gameplay-focused metaverse called “Artemis” — though non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unlikely to make an appearance.

The PUBG creator is aware that this is no small endeavor, and set a tentative 2040 target to account for the challenges that lie ahead. The term ' metaverse ' has been tainted by Facebook-turned-Meta's mediocre endeavor that cost its parent company $46 billion between 2021 and 2024, according to NASDAQ.

Brendan Greene, or "PlayerUnknown," kickstarted the battle royale craze with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Now, Greene has an even bigger goal, a metaverse, but not in the usual way.

Brendan Greene (aka “PlayerUnknown”) pioneered the Battle Royale genre of games with the early access release of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. The game has since gone on to become a massive hit, spawning countless more games like it,