Meet Ireland’s billion-dollar gamer

Brendan Greene’s video game skills have turned him into a very rich man and made him a star of the industry. Yet he can still walk around his local supermarket without anyone recognising him, he tells Barry J Whyte

Brendan Greene says having success later in life ‘leaves you witha bit more sense’ Picture: Bloomberg

If Brendan Greene passed you in the street, you wouldn’t recognise him. And yet, in his industry – computer game design – he’s a superstar, having been hired from relative obscurity to create a game that has been played by hundreds of millions of people and turned a South Korean studio into a billion-dollar giant.

And last month, his company Bluehole Inc gave him his own “special projects” division to run from Amsterdam, ...