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'Dune: Awakening' Is the Massively Ambitious Game the Sci-Fi Saga Needs

Dune: Awakening is a massively ambitious survival MMO that wants to painstakingly recreate the dangers of Arrakis, and it might just pull it off.

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Dune Awakening is a truly massive survival MMO, and it manages to make sandworms the terror they should be

Summer Preview | Dune Awakening still has a lot to prove, but I was blown away by its massive scope at Summer Game Fest

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The twist for Dune: Awakening's narrative has been revealed. M. Night Shyamalan would be proud.

The narrative for Dune: Awakening has been revealed. It makes total sense if Funcom is to deliver a game with narrative freedom.

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Paul Atreides was never born in the alternate timeline of survival MMO Dune: Awakening

Instead, Lady Jessica obeyed the Bene Gesserit and gave birth to a girl, which makes for quite a different future on Arrakis.

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From new Xbox games to AR glasses, here are my favorite things I saw at my very first GDC

At GDC 2024 in San Francisco, I saw a lot of awesome things from upcoming Xbox games, new Razer products, and even epic AR glasses.

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I previewed an upcoming Xbox survival-MMO, and it may actually make me a fan of the genre AND the Dune franchise

Dune: Awakening is an upcoming survival-MMORPG set in the Dune franchise, and my early preview actually made me excited about the full game.

Windows Central

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening wants to 'pull people away from competing and fighting over bases' and have them battle over spice instead

Funcom says PvP works best when players are "fighting over something that's not as personal as your base."

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Why Funcom didn't give Dune: Awakening an 'endowment slider' like Conan Exiles

Conan's world is "savage" and "sexy" says Dune: Awakening's executive producer. Dune's world? Not so much.

PC Gamer

Dune: Awakening's survival systems might do the impossible: make smashing boulders and collecting water fun

Harvesting rocks and stockpiling water are usually mindless chores, but in Funcom's survival MMO they look kinda enjoyable.

PC Gamer

Departing from the books, Dune MMO confirms religions, but "Leading people on a holy war is not why you arrive on Arrakis"

"The player is not a messiah"

GamesRadar

Dune Awakening will let you choose between the Harkonnen and Arrakis factions, plus a third that will arrive after launch

Developer Funcom has confirmed that Dune Awakening will let you join guilds under two factions, plus a third that is yet to be revealed.

TechRadar

Dune: Awakening's beautifully evocative concept art teases the year's hottest new Unreal Engine 5 game

Dust off your PS5.

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Dune survival MMO had to go to the author's family to get permission to cut "ridiculous" sandwalking and the book's extremely explosive shields

Dozens of shields detonating like mini nukes would've been a problem

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'A lot of us are old school MMO players': Dune: Awakening's creative director on how Star Wars Galaxies was a 'huge inspiration' for the new survival game

Part survival game, part MMO, Dune: Awakening is tapping into the bygone days of MMOs to let players carve their own paths.

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Why survival MMO Dune: Awakening won't have sandwalking: 'It looked ridiculous and it made you walk really slowly'

Dune: Awakening's creative director Joel Bylos says "we made an attempt at" the Fremen practice of sandwalking, but it wound up being a drag.

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You can claim land for your base on Arrakis in survival MMO Dune: Awakening, but you'll have to pay the Emperor for it

Here's our first look at Dune: Awakening base-building... but there's no escape from paying taxes, even in space.

PC Gamer

Dune: Awakening devs had to get permission from the Herberts to change a tiny piece of Dune lore so players wouldn't constantly nuke each other

Awakening's creative director explains solving the prickly lore problem of what happens when a Dune laser hits a Dune shield.

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I don't usually play survival games or MMOs, but almost everything about Dune: Awakening looks way cooler than I expected

Funcom's long gestating survival game is pulling from Dune lore in all sorts of clever ways.

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Dune Awakening aims to be a true survival MMO - first by making you survive Arrakis, then by making you survive politics

Preview | Funcom wants this to be the culmination of a legacy in both survival games and MMOs

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Everything we know about Dune: Awakening

Experience Arrakis like never before in the upcoming sci-fi MMO game Dune: Awakening.

TechRadar

Dune Awakening - everything we know so far

Here's what we know about Dune Awakening, as well as some info one what to expect from gameplay.

TechRadar

Sci-fi survival MMO Dune: Awakening gets fleshed out in detailed interview

Developer Funcom has opened up about its mysterious upcoming sci-fi MMO, set in the iconic Dune universe.

PC Gamer

Dune: Awakening's combat 'is much more second-to-second and intense than you would find in an MMO'

The survival MMO will, appropriately for a game set on a desert planet, have what its creators call "sandbox combat."

PC Gamer

Conan Exiles celebrates its fifth anniversary with cake and a sale

Grab the game at a 50% discount starting later today.

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Nintendo Switch 2 potential release date revealed by job listing

A job listing for the upcoming Dune MMO may have provided a clue for the launch date of the Nintendo Switch 2

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