Dune Awakening: The litany against fear shows up at Gamescom
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Dune Awakening, an open world survival massively multiplayer online game, showed up unexpectedly at Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2022.
The Funcom title starts with the main character of Frank Herbert’s Dune novel, Paul Atreides, reciting the litany against fear. He recites this familiar way to ward off panic as he stares down the maw of a giant sandworm on the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune.
Inspired by Frank Herbert’s sci-fi masterpiece and the award-winning, blockbuster film by Denis Villeneuve, Funcom’s upcoming open world survival MMO will let us explore Arrakis. The title is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
Working with Legendary Entertainment, Dune: Awakening is set on Arrakis and takes inspiration from both Frank Herbert’s novels and Denis Villeneuve’s Academy Award-winning film while exploring exciting new possibilities in the franchise.
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Announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live, the brand-new cinematic trailer gives a taste of what’s to come. The game can be wishlisted now on Steam and anyone can also sign up for the Beta on www.dunegames.com. More details about the beta will come at a future date.
Dune: Awakening combines the grittiness and creativity of survival games with the social interactivity of large-scale, persistent multiplayer games to create a unique and ambitious Open World Survival MMO. Rise from survival to dominance in a vast and seamless Arrakis
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