The creator of the online battle royale shooting game (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) (PUBG), Brendan Greene, left the game's development team in 2019 and announced plans to create a new generation game-centered 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 in it, and then as I said, for the second game, we will test ideas, but right now, we haven't even thought about it. More is just about making some fun games.'
While NFTs may not appear in Greene's metaverse, he mentioned that blockchain technology has the potential to be integrated at some point.
'Blockchain is an interesting financial tool, as a layer in the digital world... maybe blockchain or hashgraph or future iterations of that technology will be interesting,' Greene said, 'Ultimately, 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 efforts of other metaverse creators, claiming they have created an 'IP bubble' driven by substandard technology that failed to deliver the hype: 'I think everyone is building an IP bubble, and if we're lucky, those bubbles might interact at some point in the future, but that is not the metaverse.'