Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from funcom

'Dune: Awakening' Release Date Confirmed, But There's a Catch When It Comes to Availability

Funcom's Dune: Awakening is coming later this year, and despite the wait, there's still more to be faced by gamers.

Player One

Dune: Awakening's sandworms will be their own masters: 'You won't be able to summon them at will'

It's their desert, not yours.

PC Gamer

Dune: Awakening: Everything we know about Funcom's survival MMO

The spice must flow in the alt-history Dune MMO.

PC Gamer

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Can you play Dune: Awakening on Steam Deck, ROG Ally and other gaming handhelds?

Dune: Awakening has a new benchmark tool a couple of months before launch, so what's the state of play on handhelds like the Steam Deck?

Windows Central

MMORPG Dune: Awakening finally gets release date and preorder info, but not for Xbox

Epic MMORPG Dune: Awakening finally has a confirmed release date, but it's only coming to PC via Steam at first. There's also a new character creator and benchmark tool.

Windows Central

Funcom finally reveals May release date for Dune Awakening, Steam players can now download the benchmark and character creator ahead of time

Dune Awakening will officially launch on May 20, 2025, for PC via Steam.

TechRadar

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening launches in May and I am way more excited about it than I thought I'd be

Kwisatz Haderach, give the dog a bone.

PC Gamer

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Dune: Awakening says no to David Lynch and Sting in his underwear because the Herbert Estate hates fun

Come on, the Stillsuit designs were great!

PC Gamer

After survival games like Conan Exiles, Funcom says it's made "a game with its own identity" out of Dune: Awakening – and I believe it

Interview | How Dune: Awakening found its feet in a world built on almost 60 years of lore and countless adaptations

GamesRadar

After 7 hours, Dune: Awakening might be the mix of survival and RPG that finally wins me over to the genre

The spicy takes must flow.

PC Gamer

Gulp! Dune: Awakening beta testers are dying of thirst nearly as often as they're dying of sandworms, and some are even drinking mouse blood to stay alive

"Close to a hundred [kangaroo mice] had their blood extracted," says Funcom. "How could you?"

PC Gamer

Every game, trailer, and announcement in the 2024 PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted

This year's showcase featured over 80 games to look forward to in the new year.

PC Gamer

"I am aghast": Google Search AI said a former Conan Exiles dev's personal phone was Funcom's office number, leading to irate complaint call

Due to an erroneous Google AI search result, a game developer was contacted at their personal phone number by an angry customer trying to complain to the main office of a studio they haven't worked at for eight years.

Windows Central

'Dune: Awakening' Developers Are Already Working On Fan's Biggest Criticism

"There is a lot that was not shown," the game's creative director said.

Inverse

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

TechRadar

Dune Awakening developer says work on bringing the MMO to Xbox Series S is progressing but will be a "challenge"

Funcom has said that bringing Dune Awakening to Xbox Series S will be a "challenge".

Inverse

'Dune: Awakening' May Have Overlooked A Core Part of Dune

Fans of the source material say this popular game genre feels out of place in Frank Herbert's universe.

Space

Stick to the shade in new extended 'Dune: Awakening' gameplay trailer (video)

A new gameplay trailer for Funcom's open-world survival video game, "Dune: Awakening"

Player One

New Dune: Awakening Showcase Video Reveals Potential of Upcoming Survival MMO

A new showcase video for Dune: Awakening reveals the potential of the upcoming survival MMO made by developer Funcom.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Inverse

'Dune: Awakening' Gets a Frustrating Release Date Update

The sleeper will awaken...soon. But what is the actual release date for 'Dune: Awakening'? And what can players actually expect from the gameplay

Inverse

'Dune: Awakening' Recreates The Best Part Of The Books

Frank Herbert’s Dune saga is transported into the game Dune: Awakening from developer Funcom. The upcoming action MMO will let players replicate the human and factional drama at the center of these seminal books, creating endless possibilities for new stories on Arrakis.

TechRadar

Dune Awakening's new gameplay trailer explores the planet of Arrakis

Dune Awakening just received a brand-new gameplay trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024.

PC Gamer

Aloft is a stunning skybound survival game that's soaring towards Early Access

Turn a floating aerial island into your very own skyship, and get your friends involved too.

Windows Central

A single Dune: Awakening map will be almost ten times the size of Conan Exiles, where you can "meet hundreds of players"

In an interview published on their YouTube page, Funcom announced some rather big news that was previously unknown. The game will feature a PvP zone almost ten times the size of Conan Exiles.

PC Gamer

In Dune: Awakening you 'physically fly' your ornithopter between servers on an overland map filled with 'hundreds of other players'

Funcom explains the nuts and bolts of how its MMO works.

PC Gamer

Dune: Awakening is threatening to turn me into a survival MMO guy after a lifetime as a devoted videogame hermit

The spice must flow.

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.