Dune: Awakening

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Oi Lads, rad. | Dune Awakening's creative director speaks on the end game, and how the Landsraad will give key roles to crafter and killer alike

The Landsraad system is more like the Gates of Ahn' Qiraj than standard weekly quests, which should excite you.

May 28, 2025 Connor Makar

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Dune The Endgame | It's taken years, but Dune Awakening is finally getting an end-game info dump next week, so we'll finally know how the rest of the game plays

We're finally get a deeper dive into the real meat of this Survival MMO.

May 22, 2025 Connor Makar

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Wormhammer 40,000 | Dune Awakening's final beta has gone well, hitting a peak of nearly 40,000 worm-lovers over the weekend

After opening the floodgates to those who pre-ordered, Funcom's upcoming MMO seemed to win over the weekend.

May 12, 2025 Connor Makar

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Dune It This Weekend | The final Dune Awakening beta before launch is now live, as thousands flock to the sands to mine iron and stab each other

A wave of new players are trying out Dune Awakening starting today, here's hoping they like it!

May 9, 2025 Connor Makar

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Build Back Better | Dune Awakening's latest dev video shows off faction-specific bases, which look far nicer than the bland boxes we've built in the beta

After aligning with the Harkonnen or Atreides, build a base that isn't just a box on the rocks.

April 30, 2025 Connor Makar

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Dune It For Free | Dune Awakening is getting a "large scale" beta weekend, the last chance to taste the spice before the game launches

The wait is almost over, but why not get a taste of what Funcom are dune?

April 25, 2025 Connor Makar

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Play in the Sandbox | Dune Awakening preview: a loving recreation of a beloved sci-fi property that offers more questions than answers, but it's a good start

Dune Awakening is about as loving an adaptation of the Herbert's universe as you could get, to a fault.

April 25, 2025 Connor Makar

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As Long As It Takes | Dune Awakening's delay sucks, but if the past few years of live service launches have taught me anything, it's that it's probably a good call

There's nothing that cripples the launch of an MMO than a bad first impression.

April 16, 2025 Connor Makar

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Dune it in June | Dune a delay: Just as it’s about to launch, the promising Dune Awakening gets pushed back a month following beta feedback

The MMO has been pushed back from its intended May release date

April 15, 2025 Connor Makar

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What you Dune? | Dune Awakening will let players dress like those nasty Sardaukar, but it'll cost a pretty penny

Prices for each of the game's editions are out and for a bit of cash, a cool look can be yours.

March 24, 2025 Connor Makar

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Dune Just Enough | Dune Awakening’s take on monetisation actually sounds pretty decent, at least to those of us that remember paying cumbersome subscription fees

In addition, info regarding system requirements is now out there via an official Steam post

March 21, 2025 Connor Makar

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Sand! | New Dune Awakening hype video digs into desert exploration, showing off the ever-changing Deep Desert for the first time

It's even got a David Attenborough-style narrator, just to get you in the mood.

March 13, 2025 Connor Makar

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Date for Dune | Good news, spice lovers: Dune Awakening is launching on May 20, and here's how much it'll cost

You can download the character creator and benchmark tool right now for a taste of spice melange.

Feb. 20, 2025 Connor Makar

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Team Up | Dune Awakening takes inspiration from Classic WoW for this one crucial part of the game

How exactly do you transition from playing solo to playing with others? Classic WoW might have solved this problem ages ago.

Feb. 5, 2025 Connor Makar

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Pad's the way | Dune Awakening may be coming out on PC first, but it's "designed with a controller in mind"

Producer Nils Ryborg provides some insight from his own experience porting traditional PC genres to console.

Feb. 4, 2025 Connor Makar

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Lines In The Sand | The Dune Awakening team had "a bunch of constraints" placed on what they could show by working with Hollywood

This limitation is what pushed the team towards the alternate history approach.

Jan. 30, 2025 Connor Makar

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Desert Power | Dune Awakening will have a smart fix for the age old problem of faction imbalance: a third faction dedicated to levelling the playing field

Now that's a scoop. What would this third faction be?

Jan. 30, 2025 Connor Makar

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Don't Paul My Leg | In a post-Valheim and Sons of the Forest world, Dune Awakening could easily be your favourite new survival game, on one major condition - preview

Hearing a member of the press get eaten by a worm was my first highlight of 2025.

Jan. 30, 2025 Connor Makar

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RUNNING HOT | Bringing Dune Awakening to the Xbox Series S will be a "challenge", according to Funcom chief product officer

"It's one of the reasons we're coming out on PC first"

Sept. 2, 2024 Connor Makar

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What U Dune | Dune Awakening spices up Gamescom Opening Night Live with a 2025 release date

Finally, you at home can feel the sand beneath your feet.

Aug. 20, 2024 Connor Makar

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More Video Games | Watch Summer Game Fest 2024 here

All the games have assembled. Geoff's probably become incredibly familiar with Hideo Kojima's answering machine. It's time.

June 7, 2024 Mark Warren

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DEATH AND TAXES | "What happens in the desert stays in the desert" - How Dune Awakening's factions expand upon the lore more than the Dune movies

Be it Harkonnen or Atreides, the war for spice is fought with more than just swords and firearms.

April 2, 2024 Connor Makar

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SPICE, SPICE BABY | Dune Awakening preview: A lot spicier than just Rust with worms

We got to see Dune Awakening a little early, and came away thirsty for more.

March 4, 2024 Connor Makar

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PC 3 | Watch the PC Gaming Show live stream here

You can expect to see 55 games throughout the show.

June 11, 2023 Kelsey Raynor

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Sand everywhere | Open-world survival MMO Dune: Awakening announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC

Fear is the mind killer... while other players will be the body killer I suppose.

Aug. 24, 2022 Connor Makar