Ex-Ubisoft leader David Polfeldt joins PlayerUnknown Productions as senior adviser
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PlayerUnknown Productions, a game studio headed by battle royale pioneer Brendan Greene, announced it has hired David Polfeldt to act as a senior adviser.
Polfeldt left Ubisoft’s Massive Entertainment studio in Sweden in March 2021. He spent 17 years at Massive, which was responsible for creating the Snowdrop game engine and shipping big titles such as The Division and The Division 2. It is also working on the upcoming Avatar and Star Wars titles.
“After chatting with David at a conference last month, we concluded that David would be a great fit to come and advise me on creating a successful studio culture with a great working environment,” said Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, in a statement.
Polfeldt said in a statement, “I’m delighted to join the team at PlayerUnknown Productions, where I will help guide Brendan’s hand in creating an authentic studio and a successful brand.”
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Greene spun PlayerUnknown Productions out of Krafton as an independent applied research and development studio. The aim was to explore how new technologies can enable large-scale digital experiences, including a huge single-player game world that Greene has dubbed Prologue and a subsequent massive multiplayer world dubbed Project Artemis.
Based in Amsterdam and led by Greene, the team of game developers, software engineers and researchers are experimenting with tools like
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