Dune: Awakening News

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

Another day, another official Dune Awakening dev video, this time highlighting the base building system. While the basics of base building is something we've already seen a lot about, we do get further insight on the late game faction-specific building options for all your Harkonnen and Atreides lovers out there.

Join Our Reddit AMA on May 6 – Ask Us Anything!

Greetings Sleepers,

We’ve been unveiling more and more of Dune: Awakening but we’re sure you have some interesting and fun questions for us.

To give everyone a chance to ask those questions, we’re organizing an AMA on the Dune: Awakening sub-reddit next week!

A question thread will be started on May 5th, 4PM CET on /r/duneawakening

This is your chance to submit your questions early and upvote questions that you think we should answer!

The AMA will take place on May 6th, on the same thread, between 4PM-6PM CET

Joining us will be:

Creative Director Joel Bylos
Executive Producer Scott Junior
Senior Game Director Viljar Sommerbakk.

This is your chance to directly ask your questions to our team and we’re looking forward to answering as many of them as we can.

See you on Reddit, Sleepers.

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Dune: Awakening's biggest beta yet sets a date, though I expect most of you won't have time to play all of it

Earlier this month Funcom did something unthinkable, completely unpredictable with Dune: Awakening… they delayed it. Alright, fine, generally the opposite is true for big games these days, but it did come down to the wire in the greater scheme of things as it was due out this coming May 20th. Now the MMO is slated to be released on June 10th (or June 5th for those with early access), just three weeks extra. That "meh" news did come with some "oh that's cool" news though, as a large-scale beta was promised. Now, following a snazzy new story trailer, a date for said beta has been set!

The Dune Awakening launch might have been pushed back, but the vast open-world survival crafting MMO is about to open its doors to tens of thousands of players with its largest beta to date. With an estimated 20-25 hours of content to explore and no restrictions on streaming, the new playtest promises to completely lift the lid on the upcoming game ahead of its launch in June.

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All Dune Awakening skills

What are the Dune Awakening skills? You're going to need to keep your wits about you if you're going to hack it on Arrakis, and having an arsenal of special abilities and stat-boosting passives will certainly help.

With the Dune Awakening release date within touching distance, we've compiled every skill available in the game's expansive skill tree to help you prepare for the journey ahead. Below, we'll give you a primer on how the survival MMO's abilities function, as well as a list of every Dune Awakening skill available. Hopefully, that'll help you plan your character's development.