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Dune: Awakening's player guilds will be able to pass some pretty OP server-wide laws—including one that means you'll lose everything when defeated in deep desert PvP

Get ready for players to make big changes to the world of Dune: Awakening.

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Dune: Awakening's support for Steam Deck gets a major win ahead of the game's launch in June

Anticheat is the biggest issue for anyone playing games on Steam Deck, but fortunately, signs all point to good for Dune: Awakening.

Windows Central

Dune: Awakening beta players extracted nearly 9 million liters of blood last weekend, enough to fill 3 Olympic-size, extremely gross swimming pools

Meanwhile, 107,000 players passed through Shai-Hulud's digestive system.

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Dune: Awakening's stabby stunlock PvP exploit is being fixed, says Funcom: 'We've got this covered'

Being endlessly staggered by a human opponent isn't a heck of a lot of fun.

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Dune Awakening: Platforms, crossplay, and more

Console gamers look away

Destructoid

'We heard your feedback': Funcom just reversed course and opened up the Dune: Awakening beta weekend to anyone who preorders the survival MMO

Seems like that should have been the plan from the beginning?

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How to access Dune: Awakening Beta

Get in while you can.

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How to play Dune: Awakening multiplayer

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'Dune: Awakening' Beta Begins This Week: What to Know About Start Times, How to Secure a Key

Dune: Awakening's much-awaited beta is beginning this week, and here's how you can secure the all-important key.

Player One

'This is not our first rodeo': Dune: Awakening team confident servers won't implode at launch

"Rest assured, there will be thousands of servers grouped together in hundreds of Worlds available at launch," Funcom said.

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Dune: Awakening beta weekend release date and times

Arrakis opens for a four-day weekend.

PC Gamer

'Don't leave trash on Arrakis'—Dune: Awakening creative director implores players to 'clean up your old bases'

Don't desert your work.

PC Gamer

I hope Dune: Awakening's base-building get weirder and wilder than what we saw in the beta, because it's going up against decades of killer Dune artwork

Dune: Awakening's building interface is a bit clunky, too.

PC Gamer

Dune: Awakening is the Spice of life and exactly what I've been waiting years to play

Choose your side in the battle for Arrakis in Funcom's most incredible adventure yet set in the Dune universe.

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After months of closed betas, Dune: Awakening is launching a "large-scale beta weekend" with 20 hours of content from the survival MMO

The devs will give out "tens of thousands" of beta keys this time around

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After 25 hours of the Dune: Awakening beta, I'm sold on it as a survival game but still a bit iffy on the MMO parts

Crafting and resource management is compelling, but the wider world has yet to grab me.

PC Gamer

Water is so precious in the Dune: Awakening beta I wound up treating innocent scavengers like my personal juice boxes

Feeling a bit thirsty? Lock and load.

GamesRadar

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening suffers a last-minute, 3-week delay because it's "a beast of a game," and now it's landing right alongside Switch 2 and Summer Game Fest

"This is multiplayer survival on a massive scale, and we're making gameplay and technical strides not seen in the genre before"

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Windows Central

Is Dune: Awakening on Xbox Game Pass?

Dune: Awakening is one of 2025's most exciting new survival games, but will it be on Xbox Game Pass?

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Lofi beats to relax/harvest spice to? Survival MMO Dune: Awakening will have in-game radio, and some stations will play music from 1992's Dune games

There will also be Harkonnen propaganda broadcasts and a "full multi-episode radio play."

PC Gamer

Here's what happens to your base in Dune: Awakening if you take a long break from Arrakis

It's not the same base decay system found in Funcom's other sandy survival game, Conan Exiles.

GamesRadar

Dune Awakening launches for $50 without a stay in early access, and while the survival MMO "will not have a monthly subscription" it will have "optional" paid DLC

The game will also "receive regular free updates"

GamesRadar

Dune: Awakening will launch with full Razer Sensa HD haptics

Dune Awakening system requirements hide some good news for Razer fans.

PC Gamer

Dune: Awakening promises us a breath of fresh air, skipping early access for a full launch with no monthly subscription in May

Dune: Awakening is just two months away from launch—which won't be early access.

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Dune Awakening's latest trailer offers a glimpse of its massive coriolis storms, which reshape swathes of the map each week for 'infinite exploration'

Shifting sands.

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