{"id":83658,"date":"2026-06-04T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83658"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:36:37","slug":"pubg-creators-new-survival-game-has-stopped-development-less-than-a-year-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83658","title":{"rendered":"PUBG Creator\u2019s New Survival Game Has Stopped Development Less Than A Year After Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/pubg-creators-new-survival-game-is-now-in-early-access\/1100-6536371\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prologue: Go Wayback<\/a> developer PlayerUnknown Productions has announced the end of development on the early access game, as well as a round of\u00a0layoffs for the studio<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/pubg-creators-new-survival-game-is-now-in-early-access\/1100-6536371\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">. <\/a>founder Brendan &#8220;PlayerUnknown&#8221; Greene\u00a0posted a statement online, explaining that the studio could no longer afford to continue working on the game. Greene also added\u00a0that\u00a0Prologue: Go Wayback will be made\u00a0available for free\u00a0to all future players\u00a0in an upcoming update, while refunds for anyone who already purchased the early access game are also coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When PlayerUnknown Productions became an independent studio in 2021, we embarked on a journey to achieve an ambitious vision for the future,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pp_socials\/status\/2062157359992983640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greene wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Our goal has been to develop technology that can break the boundaries of scale, which currently limit how large virtual worlds can be. To achieve this, we built a research team to develop our Melba technology and a team to develop our first practical application of our terrain generation technology: Prologue: Go Wayback. Unfortunately, I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey in its current form. As a result, I have made the hard decision to restructure the studio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greene and the remaining studio employees will continue to develop the Mebla technology,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prologue: Go Wayback developer PlayerUnknown Productions has announced the end of development on the early access game, as well as a round of\u00a0layoffs for the studio. founder Brendan &#8220;PlayerUnknown&#8221; Greene\u00a0posted a statement online, explaining that the studio could no longer afford to continue working on the game. Greene also added\u00a0that\u00a0Prologue: Go Wayback will be made\u00a0available&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":83660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83661,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83658\/revisions\/83661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}