Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds creator Brendan Greene told a crowd on the final day of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that he’s happy that Epic Games’ Fortnite is expanding the genre he was instrumental in helping pioneer. “It’s great that the battle royale space is expanding and Fortnite is getting battle royale game mode in the hands of a lot more people,” Greene said.
His answer was in response to an audience question about his thoughts on Fortnite, which last year copied PUBG’s primary game design idea and has since exploded in popularity largely thanks to its free-to-play model. “It grows the genre,” Greene added. The comments are notably conciliatory — though Greene prefaced his comments with a subtle joke about...
