GAMETECH: Greene is no longer an unknown

FOR Ireland, the biggest surprise of E3 2017 wasn’t a console, or even a game. For many of us, the real shock was that Player Unknown, one of the biggest names in PC gaming in recent months, was actually a man called Brendan Greene — and he was from Ballyshannon.

Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (named after Greene’s alias, such was his reputation) has shot to the top of both Steam and Twitter charts recently, as the PC gaming community rallied behind a game that recreates a ‘battle royale’ scenario in an open-world, military first-person shooter.

In Battlegrounds, up to 100 players start on a large map that continues to shrink in size until there is only one player left standing.