The 10 most important Irish people in the world of video games
Brendan Greene
Let’s start with Ireland’s biggest success story in recent years – Brendan Greene, otherwise known as ‘Player Unknown’. Ballyshannon web designer Greene was living in Brazil, had split up with his girlfriend and was completely listless when he started building a mod for ARMA2, an online shooter. What Greene created became known as the ‘Battle Royale’ of online gaming, where a map constantly gets smaller until only one person is left standing. Such was the success of his creation that Greene was hired by a Korean development firm to create Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, one of the most popular – if not the most popular – online shooters of 2017. This makes Greene arguably the most successful Irish game developer ever.
