PlayerUnknown’s new game sounds outrageously ambitious

A small example of what Melba can do. | Image: PlayerUnknown Productions

Hey, remember PlayerUnknown? As in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG to your friends? Yeah, well Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, has provided details surrounding his latest gaming project, codenamed Artemis," which aims to be an open-source Earth-sized virtual environment supporting hundreds of thousands of players that can make or play whatever they want.

Here's the rub, though. Greene also wants users to be able to monetize what they make, essentially turning all user-generated content into NFTs. In an interview with Nathan Brown on the Hit Points newsletter, Greene mentions, We're building a digital place that has to have an economy, and it has to have systems at work. And I do believe you should be able to extract value from...

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