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Dune: Awakening News
2025
January 7
⚫︎ Dune: Awakening is set to deliver a groundbreaking experience with its integration of NVIDIA DLSS 4 technology and next-gen Razer Chroma and Haptics. Announced at CES 2025, the game will use NVIDIA’s Multi Frame Generation to enhance performance and visual quality, bringing the harsh beauty of Arrakis to life with stunning detail. Additionally, Razer’s haptic devices and synced lighting will immerse players in the world of Arrakis, allowing them to feel sandworm vibrations, sandstorm winds, and combat intensity in real-time.
2024
November 15
⚫︎ In a developer update last November, the Q&A section for Dune: Awakening provided new insights into gameplay mechanics. Shields, using Holtzman tech, protect against fast projectiles but are vulnerable to slow melee strikes, poison, and fire, and their vibrations can attract sandworms. Crafting shields requires rare parts found in specific locations like Imperial Testing Stations. While the game primarily features third-person gameplay, certain tools like binoculars and scopes offer first-person perspectives.
Vehicles, which can be crafted or found, have customizable access permissions and can be safely stored using a vehicle backup tool. Though sandworm riding won’t be available at launch, developers aim to implement it in a meaningful way later. Players will level up by gaining experience through exploration and completing contracts, unlocking abilities, crafting recipes, and skills like those taught by Wandering Masters, including Bene Gesserit techniques.
August 20
⚫︎ At Gamescom, a five-minute gameplay showcase for the open-world survival MMO Dune: Awakening offered a closer look at the unforgiving world of Arrakis. Players must adapt to the desert planet by mastering Fremen survival skills and engaging in combat, spice harvesting, construction, and trade. With escalating guild conflicts and battles for spice control, the game emphasizes player-driven choices that shape their destiny.
March 5
⚫︎ In March 2024, Funcom unveiled new details about their upcoming survival MMO, Dune: Awakening, set in the harsh desert world of Arrakis. Based on Frank Herbert’s Dune and Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation, the game’s first-ever Dune: Awakening Direct showcased in-game footage and highlighted key gameplay features, all powered by Unreal Engine 5. The presentation built excitement for the game, which was originally announced in 2022, while capitalizing on the buzz surrounding the release of Dune: Part Two.
