Gamescom 2024 in Cologne, Germany, is about to begin with Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live spectacle, a two-hour parade of trailers, advertisements, and ideally, new game announcements that kick off the show and set the stage for the event… oh yeah, and give those of us back home some distraction. Thanks to public hints and […]

Arrakis, dune, desert planet. It’s a lovely place, filled with Fremen, sandworms, spice, and war. It’s the home to some of the best sci-fi films and novels ever created, and soon you’ll have the chance to touch down on it in Dune Awakening. During Gamescom 2024 developer Funcom showed off a little of how it’ll play - and narrowed down when you’ll get to play it.

If there’s one complaint that could be leveraged against Dune: Awakening, it’s that Funcom isn’t exactly generous with information about the survival sandbox MMO, unless you call mobile-aspected Tiktok-length clips of previously discussed features “communication.” That appears to be changing with the first printing of the MMO’s Communinet Signal, aka the game’s monthly newsletter. Each […]

Dune, as a concept, is huge. It’s been around for decades, and is easily one of the most popular sci-fi series to exist, doing intergalactic conflict before Star Wars, and murderous musical chairs before Game of Thrones. It isn’t especially prevalent in videogames, though, despite the interesting rules of engagement, and spicy political environment, but Dune Awakening aims to take everything, and nothing, from the series and build something great.