Brendan Greene, the creator of the online battle royale shooting game (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) (PUBG), left the game's development team in 2019 and announced plans to create a new generation of game-centric metaverse called 'Artemis,' although it is unlikely to include NFTs.
Recently, Greene stated in an interview with IGN that he 'hasn't even considered' including NFTs, and his game studio, PlayerUnknown Productions, is currently developing the project.

He added, 'What we care about is getting the engine to a state where we can make things, and then, as I said, with the second game, we'll test ideas, but right now, we haven't even thought about it. It's more about making some fun games.'
While NFTs may not appear in Greene's metaverse, he mentioned that blockchain technology could potentially be integrated at some point.
'Blockchain is an interesting financial tool, as a layer in the digital world... maybe the future iterations of blockchain or hashgraph or that technology will be interesting,' Greene said, 'At the end of the day, it's a digital ledger, and if we can use a digital ledger, we'll find the best one and use it.'
He also stated that the metaverse has become a 'dirty word,' dismissing the initiatives of other metaverse creators, claiming they have created an 'IP bubble' made from substandard technology that fails to deliver on the hype: 'I think everyone is building an IP bubble, and if we're lucky, those bubbles may connect at some point in the future, but that's not the metaverse.'