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In survival MMO Dune: Awakening players can 'see just a little bit into the future' once they get 'saturated with spice'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Creative director Joel Bylos sheds a little more light on how spice will work in Funcom's Dune MMO.

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Survival MMO Dune: Awakening announces early 2025 release

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Funcom showed off 5 minutes of new gameplay footage at Gamescom's Opening Night Live.

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

By Christopher Livingston Published

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

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A vast landscape with a crashed spaceship in Dune: Awakening.
Dune: Awakening is threatening to turn me into a survival MMO guy after a lifetime as a devoted videogame hermit

By Joshua Wolens Published

Spicy Take The spice must flow.

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

By Christopher Livingston Published

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

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A base on a sandy planet
Why Funcom didn't give Dune: Awakening an 'endowment slider' like Conan Exiles

By Christopher Livingston Published

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

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

By Christopher Livingston Published

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

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Dune: Awakening
'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

By Wes Fenlon Published

News 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'

By Christopher Livingston Published

news 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

By Christopher Livingston Published

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

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