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Funcom Unveils New Dune: Awakening Footage in Epic Trailer and Featurette

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Funcom is proud to reveal a brand-new trailer and featurette for Dune: Awakening, premiered in the first of a new showcase series, Dune: Awakening Direct. Hosted by the prominent Soe Gschwind, the fifteen-minute show dropped spectacular new footage of the open-world survival MMO, where you will fight to survive on the most dangerous planet in the universe.

After announcing Dune: Awakening back in 2022, Funcom has kept its cards close to its chest. With the release of Dune: Part 2 this weekend, however, the developers are finally ready to uncover what has been growing beneath the sand's surface this whole time. In Creating Worlds: From Book to Film to Game, Funcom takes us on a breathtaking journey into the heart of Arrakis, featuring never-before-seen footage from the game. Interviews with Greig Fraser, academy award-winning Cinematographer on Villeneuve's Dune Part 1 and 2, and Funcom Creative Director, Joel Bylos, reveal the creative overlap between Dune: Awakening and the recent movies. Get a glimpse at what it takes to bring the ultimate Dune fantasy to life.



Following Creating Worlds, the Survive Arrakis Trailer explodes out of the sand with colossal sandworms and soaring ornithopters. Gather materials to build your base in the style of your choosing, explore the deadly deserts in a variety of vehicles, learn deadly techniques and abilities from the Great Schools of the Imperium, and rise from survival to dominance. Witness the awesome scale and freedom of a living Arrakis.


Dune: Awakening combines the grit and creativity of survival games with the social interactivity of a large, persistent multiplayer game to create a unique and ambitious open-world survival MMO. Dune: Awakening is more sandbox than theme park. The emphasis lies in the freedom it offers in choosing and pursuing your goals, and the emergent moments that arise as they clash with that of other players.

In Creating Worlds, Joel Bylos summed up the meaning of Dune: Awakening, "Funcom as a company has been on this journey for a long time, creating multiplayer worlds where players can live out their dreams and fantasies. We were there in the beginning with massively multiplayer online games. We've been there in the beginning with survival open-world crafting games, and Dune: Awakening is a culmination of those legacies, bringing us forward into the future. It's a culmination of what Funcom means as a company and what we can deliver."

This was only the first Dune: Awakening Direct, with more soon to follow, showcasing additional gameplay, interviews, and more. Dune: Awakening will come to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Sign up to the Beta now at www.duneawakening.com and wishlist the game on Steam.

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Had a total deja-vu moment from the first Starfield game play reveal; I'm all 'ok this looks interesting enough' until some bloke breaks out an omnitool and starts harvesting a rock with beams of magic <dejected sigh>
 
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Had a total deja-vu moment from the first Starfield game play reveal; I'm all 'ok this looks interesting enough' until some bloke breaks out an omnitool and starts harvesting a rock with beams of magic <dejected sigh>
No Man Sky deja vu.
 
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visually not impressive, flat lighting and the sand effect coming from the work....meh
 
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I try to watch trailers first before reading the PR and finding out what genre the game is, I doubt I'd have watched it if I'd known that it was an open-world-survival mmo. The deja vu was from the sudden-multi-tool-jumpscare in that first starfield reveal.
 
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funcom released ports of MK on sega saturn like almost 30 years ago. cool they are still around

wow time flys

nvm that was eurocom
 
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My two favourite thing's are Dune and MMORPG's
But I'm not excited for this because it's survival based and they tend to be short lived or to PvP centric. Hope I'm wrong but I've not heard anything content wise for end game so probably doesn't have any just another try to survive game /sigh
 
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The last time I played a Funcom game was Anarchy Online, lol.
 
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