Dune: Awakening News

Witness the Beauty of Arrakis

Greetings Sleepers,

Check your literjon, strap on your stillsuit, and venture into the sands with us to witness the harsh beauty and spellbinding majesty of Arrakis in our latest video: Beauty of Arrakis.

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While Arrakis is principally a desert planet, its vast surface is home to many unique locations and diverse environments full of secrets to uncover. In this video, we show off a few of these locations. Soar through the shadows of the Hagga Rift, and wander across the red sands of the Vermillius Gap to the gnarled vegetation of the O’odham.

This video shows only a glimpse of what you will explore on Arrakis, by foot, in groundcars, and from the cockpit of ornithopters.

Multiplayer survival on the most dangerous planet in the universe awaits, Sleepers. Early this year, you will taste the spice.

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

Dune Awakening is an MMO. You probably know this already if you've been keeping up with the game. Players will be able to eventually pull together to mine spice, raid bio-labs, and clash in massive PvP battles. However, as shown in my preview, the early game is a solo experience for the most part. So how do you transition players from that solitary play style to a collaborative one?

Our Impressions Roundup Is Here!

Greetings Sleeper,

Following our big hands-on event for Dune: Awakening in Oslo, impressions from journalists and content creators have been appearing everywhere!

It was an amazing experience to see everyone enjoying the game in person, and we’d like to share that feeling with you all in our new and extended behind-the-scenes video, which also features interviews with some of our developers:

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If you missed what people have been saying, here are some highlights:

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“You can live out your Dune fantasy in the most faithful recreation of Arrakis we've yet seen in a game.” - Eurogamer

“Yes, I'm basically peeing in my Stillsuit with excitement, even after all the sandworm trauma.” - IGN

“Even this early on, it's apparent that Funcom is more interested in making something that captures Dune's vibe rather than following the survival game herd, and that's why it successfully grabbed me.” - PC Gamer

“I can't wait to play more.” - GamesRadar+

“...might be one of the most exciting shakeups of the survival sandbox in years.” - The Daily Star

“Sandworms are fucking awesome.” - PCGamesN

“Dune: Awakening feels like a natural evolution ... of the [survival] genre.” - MMORPG

“Funcom is in the midst of crafting a worthy follow-up to Frank Herbert’s legacy...” - Wccftech

“Arrakis is looking like a bold new horizon...” - Shacknews

“One of the things that impressed me the most was the scale of the project.” - IGN Brasil

“Funcom offers a universe with infinite possibilities.” - Meristation

“The atmosphere and ambience make you feel completely absorbed.” - Julien Chièze

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“Funcom has in my opinion absolutely nailed it.” - Onepeg

“The gunplay in this game feels so crisp.” - The AxeMan

“The longer I stayed in the sun, the faster I dehydrated. I found this system to be really interesting and unique.” - Arean

“From a lore perspective I would say one of the things I’m enjoying ... is how much attention that has been given to the details.” - Renfail

Every day we get closer to launch. We can’t wait for you all to experience the rise from survival to greatness on Arrakis.

May you always find shade.

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

Porting a game from PC to console is hard, especially if the game in question is from a genre traditionally one native to the PC. It can be tricky to make the transition across platforms without losing something along the way, but in the case of Dune Awakening, the game has been "designed with a controller in mind".

Dune Awakening is on the horizon, finally bringing the Arrakean survival fantasy to life, but why has it taken so long? Frank Herbert's iconic sci-fi odyssey presents the perfect environment for a survival game. Everything about Arrakis is death upon death, wrapped in death with a side helping of, well, death.

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