{"id":684438,"date":"2026-04-06T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/funcoms-open-world-survival-mmo-dune-awakening-gets-first-trailer"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:44:00","slug":"funcoms-open-world-survival-mmo-dune-awakening-gets-first-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/funcoms-open-world-survival-mmo-dune-awakening-gets-first-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Funcom&#8217;s open-world survival MMO Dune: Awakening gets first trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/funcoms-open-world-survival-mmo-dune-awakening-gets-first-trailer.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nFuncom has released a first cinematic trailer for Dune: Awakening, a new &#8220;open-world survival MMO&#8221; inspired by Frank Herbert&#8217;s novels and Denis Villeneuve&#8217;s Academy Award-winning film, that&#8217;s heading to PS5, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDune: Awakening was first teased back in 2019, when Funcom announced it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/conan-exiles-developer-funcom-lands-deal-to-make-dune-games\">signed a deal with Legendary Studios<\/a> to make &#8220;at least&#8221; three games set in Frank Herbert&#8217;s Dune universe. One of those eventually turned out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/a-first-play-of-dune-spice-wars-feels-like-a-first-read-of-the-books\">Dune: Spice Wars<\/a> and the other, described as an &#8220;open-world multiplayer game&#8221; from Funcom Oslo, we can now call Dune: Awakening.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday&#8217;s announcement doesn&#8217;t bring any gameplay, but Funcom says it&#8217;ll combine the &#8220;grittiness and creativity of survival games with the social interactivity of large-scale, persistent multiplayer games&#8221; in a &#8220;vast and seamless Arrakis shared by thousands of players&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/funcoms-open-world-survival-mmo-dune-awakening-gets-first-trailer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/funcoms-open-world-survival-mmo-dune-awakening-gets-first-trailer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funcom has released a first cinematic trailer for Dune: Awakening, a new &#8220;open-world survival MMO&#8221; inspired by Frank Herbert&#8217;s novels and Denis Villeneuve&#8217;s Academy Award-winning film, that&#8217;s heading to PS5, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC. Dune: Awakening was first teased back in 2019, when Funcom announced it had signed a deal with Legendary Studios to make &#8220;at least&#8221; three games set in Frank Herbert&#8217;s Dune universe. One of those eventually turned out to be Dune: Spice Wars and the other, described as an &#8220;open-world multiplayer game&#8221; from Funcom Oslo, we can now call Dune: Awakening. Today&#8217;s announcement doesn&#8217;t bring any gameplay, but Funcom says it&#8217;ll combine the &#8220;grittiness and creativity of survival games with the social interactivity of large-scale, persistent multiplayer games&#8221; in a &#8220;vast&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/funcoms-open-world-survival-mmo-dune-awakening-gets-first-trailer\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":684439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[8513,135,424,59,45,4616],"class_list":["post-684438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-dune-awakening","tag-mmo","tag-open-world","tag-pc","tag-ps5","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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